Word: boomtown
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Boomtown service workers find jobs but can't make the rent...
...Ireland gave the world Van Morrison; in the '70s, Bob Geldof and the Boomtown Rats; in the '80s, U2 and Sinead O'Connor. Now there's Black 47. The group's new album deals with such subjects as class warfare and potato famine, and their new video Funky Ceili is getting heavy play on MTV. Then there's the Irish band Hothouse Flowers, whose new album Songs from the Rain is both intelligent and evocative, full of the kind of arena-size emotions that are likely to seduce large audiences. And the new compilation Straight Outta Ireland -- whose title plays...
MUSIC Tiny Branson, Mo., is the boomtown of country music...
...there is no turning back the clock. Too many tourists have found a friendly, affordable mecca in Branson; too many nationally known performers, & some of whose hits are behind them, have found appreciative audiences. "It is an honest-to-goodness boomtown," says Stafford. "There are other places where this could be happening, but it's not. The gold rush is here." Spoken like a true pioneer...
Life imitates Walt in the Southern boomtown fueled by Disney World...