Sentences with phrase «of small town politics»

It's an honest portrayal of small town politics, how rumors become truth, and how sometimes no one's really right or wrong in an argument.

Wayward woman: King Vidor's 1952 tale of small town politics is contradictory but enduringly magnetic

Not exact matches

He needs also to paint in the big ideas of social justice and economic credibility on the big canvass of national politics, not the assiduous detail of small town and party campaigning.

Niccoli, 38, got involved in Palatine politics (population 3,400) on a small - town issue, sharp division over the proposed construction of a new town hall pegged at $ 500,000.

The video also highlights Pataki's resume, his time as the mayor of small - town Peekskill and entry into state politics.

Taylor Swift is a small - town country singer turned international pop goddess, known not only for her music, but also for her long list of ex 29 days ago Taylor Swift shouldn't be too surprised that politics are not off the table on The Swift Life app.

Seuss was quite unhappy when the anti-abortion movement latched onto the book's line of «a person's a person, no matter how small,» but this movie has touches of politics all over it that weren't in the book, including a town council more concerned with PR than safety and the injection of conservative culture - war rhetoric into the book's sour kangaroo (who now «pouch - schools» her joey.)

True Blood is wildly entertaining, what with its peek into the seamy underbelly of vampire politics, the integration of several supernatural species, and small town life / afterlife.

Thanks to the efforts of his social - climbing wife Jessie (Risdon), furniture store employee Wilbur Todd (Leon Errol) is tossed headfirst into the world of small - town politics.

Surprisingly, it is less about the cutthroat world of small - town politics, but it's a story about finding love in unexpected.

The torrid small - town underworld of mouthy teenage sex workers and their salt - of - the - earth pimps who Mike uncovers in his investigation is less than progressive in its gender politics (the film falls well short of passing the Bechdel test), but is generally restrained enough to avoid overt offense.

This multifaceted documentary about the middleweight world boxing champion, Sergio «Maravilla» Martinez, shows his struggle to gain recognition from the international boxing community as a young man from a small town in Argentina, and his fight back to the top after being a victim of boxing politics.

When a Union general requests his help in investigating the disappearance of a group of his soldiers from a small town in the South, Mister initially declines, refusing to get involved in the politics between the North and the South.

I read and reviewed the novel last week, and I'll certainly agree that the story — which is about small - town gossip, poverty and politics — lacks the magic of Harry Potter.

With abundant humor, all issues are tackled but underneath the carpet is the seriousness of privilege, racial bias, rules of the old South, and small town politics.

It's a small town with politics, which was most of my concern.

Now, the story of the small town's past — love affairs, politics, life, demons and disasters — have all been sealed beneath the museum's vitrines, the historical «specimens» becoming an authoritative but limited interpretation of this town's history.