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...banks of the Mississippi before then. "I want you all to see the riv-er the way I see the riv-er," he says, letting the word roll out slowly, a promise of ineffable revelations to come. Events such as this, designed to show off a candidate's small-town heart, tend to feel like Hollywood location shoots--superimposed on a place. Bradley wants to prove he has a real connection to this one. But first he has to find his wife. "Ernestine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Campaign 2000: Bradley's Twilight Cruise | 9/20/1999 | See Source »

...course it did, says Anna Jones, Cary's aunt and Delbert's sister. Delbert and Kay were after nothing more than a small-town stake in a Central Valley farm community, Delbert punching a clock as a mechanic, Kay grabbing whatever service jobs she could find. It wasn't easy or grand, but it was a life, and in an instant, it was gone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Shade Of His Brother | 8/9/1999 | See Source »

Maggie (Julia Roberts) runs a small-town hardware store. But she's more famous for leaving her bridegrooms at the altar. Ike (Richard Gere) is a newspaper columnist who writes a piece exaggerating her escapist exploits in terms sexist enough to get him fired. Are these people meant for each other or what...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Altar Egos | 8/9/1999 | See Source »

While suburban and small-town parents often worry about their kids being overscheduled with sports and not having enough free time, many inner-city families say they would love to have such problems. When kids pour out of school each day in scores of lower-income urban communities, all that awaits them is the street--no soccer, baseball or ice skating. They just hang out, while their parents pray that dead-end afternoons won't lead to sex or drugs or violence. "Most teenage pregnancies happen between 2 and 5 in the afternoon," says Les Franklin, founder of the Shaka...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Poor Kids Need A Sporting Chance | 7/12/1999 | See Source »

Straight out of a Norman Rockwell painting, therustic villages of western Mass. Are among theremaining outposts of small-town New England.Nestled in the rolling Berkshires, Greyhoundserves Stockbridge, Williamstown and other townsin the area...

Author: By Alan E. Wirzbicki, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Summertime in the Country | 7/2/1999 | See Source »

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