Word: small-town
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
BOOKS: Another Kennedy tell-all; Kent Haruf returns to small-town life in Eventide...
...early 1940s, most small-town Swedish children were busy with socializing and schoolwork, but not Ingvar Kamprad, who was obsessed with selling matches to his neighbors (the business-savvy child would ride his bicycle from house to house). Success with matches led to other bulk products like fish, pencils and Christmas-tree decorations. Little did Kamprad know that his efforts would grow into a $12.2 billion multinational retail business with more than 150 instantly recognizable blue-and-yellow megastores...
...high school yearbook had featured the category, Audrey Seiler might well have been voted the Girl Least Likely to Fake Her Own Kidnapping. She was a small-town girl, raised in tiny Rockford, Minn. (pop. 3,500). A tall, pretty brunet, she was honor-society president her senior year at Rockford High School, captained the volleyball and basketball teams and graduated third in her class in 2002. The manager of the Rockford Public Library says Seiler used to show up with small children in tow and tutored summer-school students. She was the kind of kid "you want to hold...
...first decade of freedom, from food to the way a town's sewage system works. Exciting new writer Zakes Mda also mines South Africa's past for his feisty novel, The Madonna of Excelsior (Farrar, Straus and Giroux), a fictionalized account of the arrest in 1971 of 19 small-town citizens for breaking the Immorality Act by having sex across the color line. Like so much in South Africa - past and present - expect it to challenge your prejudices...
...Eternal Sunshine, Carrey and Winslet are Joel and Clem, two sad sacks trapped in a dead-end, no-hope, kill-me-now love affair in small-town Long Island, N.Y. They can't stand each other, and they can't break up. Out of desperation Clem undergoes a medical procedure that wipes all traces of Joel from her memory. When Joel finds out about it, he goes to the same doctor to have Clem erased too. It's a love story, but it's also an existential head scratcher, an endless M.C. Escher escalator. Who's to say the doomed...