Word: setting
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...high school days, the family had moved to Colorado Springs. There wasn't much money around -- the bungalow Burns lived in would probably fit into her current office -- but you could set a sitcom at Cheyenne Mountain High in the '60s. There were "keggers" (beer parties) and "woodsies" (gatherings in a nearby park) set to Simon & Garfunkel and the Beach Boys. Her old pals remember her as a lively girl, just the kind you'd like to take for a spin in your first fire engine. She did seem to figure things out fast and was aware of a wider...
...Then there could be no serious debate about the existence of an entity called "the South" or a state of mind called "Southern." Nor was it that way in the Mississippi to which I returned in 1959. It and the entire South could still be bound by an old set of propositions. It segregated the races by law and custom, was poor in every index except natural resources, and held fervently to a one-party politics whose ultimate, if often obscured, objective was the perpetuation of a class and caste system distinctly different from the . national ideal...
...case began in 1983 when the mother of one of the children wrote police a letter accusing Buckey of sexually molesting her 2 1/2-year-old son. Not long after, police set off a panic among parents by sending letters to 200 of them stating that authorities were investigating charges of sodomy at the preschool. After videotaped interviews were conducted with 400 children, investigators decided that 369 had been abused. Later, the mother whose claims had initiated the case complained to prosecutors that someone had sodomized her dog and that her estranged husband and an AWOL Marine were also abusing...
From the creator of gritty real-life dramas like Hill Street Blues and L.A. Law, the idea seemed downright goofy. Steven Bochco's proposal was to do a TV series set in the White House, in which the affairs of government are seen through the eyes of mice, bugs and other critters roaming around the place. A cartoon, of all things. Network executives, Bochco recalls, greeted his suggestion with all the warmth that Sylvester used to display toward Tweety Pie. "They said, 'What, are you crazy? Take...
Early last week everything seemed set for a five-member North Korean delegation to cross the border and meet with a South Korean dissident organization to plan a historic pan-national rally for Aug. 15, the 45th anniversary of liberation from Japan. But when the five arrived at the border, they first refused to accept South Korea's choice of a hotel and then insisted that the dissidents rather than government representatives escort them at the meeting. At that Seoul balked. After two days of arguing, the North Koreans returned home...