Word: small-town
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...expect a new, larger-scale House of the Future. Instead, Celebration was "imagineered" to appeal to many Americans' nostalgic desire for a retro ideal: a small-town life in which neighbors have cook-outs, streets are safe and the neighborhood schools act as the center of an active and friendly community...
...Disney shifted from giving us a glimpse of the future to granting us a memory of the past? Why does "small-town USA" attract a '90s crowd the way "21st-century technology" once attracted citizens...
...Toyota aims to remove the last shreds of resistance that some consumers--particularly in the blue-collar Midwest--still have for foreign nameplates. A recent Toyota study found that 30% of the Americans surveyed said they would not buy a Japanese vehicle. Certainly, for this part of rural, small-town America, the high-paying manufacturing jobs that Toyota is creating will go a long way toward overcoming historic prejudices...
...knew Kennedy through the Senator's son, a fellow amputee, and that he went to praise Kennedy's work on behalf of veterans. By the time he had finished talking, Cleland had transformed a partisan attack into an eloquent speech that hewed closely to the values of his small-town Southern audience...
...which opens this week. Last week she finished shooting a film with the Irish director Pat O'Connor, who previously made Circle of Friends. And then there's That Thing You Do, well known in Hollywood as Tom Hanks' directorial debut, in which Tyler plays the groupie of a small-town band in the early '60s. This film wrapped earlier this year and will be out in the fall...