Sentences with phrase «town kids who»

As the election recedes from view, let us not fall back into our bad habits, and forget the rural and small town kids who need our help, too.
His performance really was a «coming out,» as he did his best to present a normal, small town kid who becomes «unbalanced» and psychotic due to his traumatic experiences at the hands of the North Vietnamese.
The plot of «the small town kid who strikes it big and realizes what he always dreamt of isn't what it was cracked up to be» has been done so often and so much better that it basically negates this film's reason to exist.

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The working women who clean their homes and mind their kids live in a shanty town outside the gated community.
It was created by three moms who understand the struggle of getting kids around town safely.
I know many people raised in holiness churches who'd load their kids up and take them three towns over to see a forbidden movie so that no one in their church would find out.
During a stop in one gray stone village for a bathroom break, he whipped out the Opinel knife he keeps in the glove compartment to cut through some donkey - meat salami we'd bought a few towns ago and served it to the kids, who gobbled it down like hungry birds.
Alexis was a street kid who has travelled the world plying his trade — I have read quite a bit on Pedro being quite the home - town boy.
A man who'd gone shoeless growing up in a two - bedroom shack after his daddy went bankrupt during the Depression, and then found his calling in a town that once postponed Halloween because it fell on a game night, and molded the lives of 1,700 of its kids because he never cut a player.
Mayasich, born in the mining town of Eveleth in 1933, grew up to be a rangy, rawboned kid (six feet, 180 pounds) who was a natural at every sport he tried.
All I know is that when I had two kids under two, and a husband who was out of town half the time, CIO was pretty much the difference between repeatedly slapping my eighteen - month - old out of sheer exhaustion and frustration, and the sane and happy family life we have now.
Everyone knows that if you're the parents who buy their kid the jumbo - sized trampoline, kids across town are going to come running over to your house to do backflips into the yard and potentially smash their teeth in.
Ostensibly, it is the story of a team of nine - year old hockey players in a Boston suburb, their coach, a former high school baseball coach and local sports hero, the all - male board of directors of the town's hockey club, a hockey mom concerned about her kids emotional well - being, and, at center ice, a set of adorable, identical, competitive, but sensitive twin boys who became, as is all too often the case in the adult - centered world of youth sports, the unintended but innocent victims of a real life power play.
But just ask the kids who played on my soccer teams, especially the players who were told by the town travel soccer club that they weren't good enough to play travel soccer but who, after playing on one my teams, went on to play high school varsity soccer.
And when it comes down to it, if given the choice, my kids would rather have a (relatively) rested, calm, relaxed and PRESENT mom to come home to after school and to tuck them in at night than one who is their class mom and girl scout troop leader and baseball team mom and who runs the school store organizes the school fundraiser and is on every board there is to be on in town (I don't do all that stuff, but you get the point) and who is also a complete and total stressed out and spread thin raging lunatic from the moment they get home until the moment they are in bed.
We currently have no peanut allergies at our school but I have friends who have kids with peanut allergies and many schools in surrounding towns have started to ban peanut products.
It's not just a Halloween DVD though - if you haven't seen Gravity Falls, it's about two kids who move to a strange town that has a bunch of...
We are all neighbors, regardless of political enrollment, who run into one another at the grocery store, watch our kids grow up in local schools, participate in local community groups, and enjoy the best our unique town has to offer.
John Perry, his town's former assessor and a longtime fixture for his coaching of local kids» sports teams, will be the new town supervisor in Hurley after the counting of absentee ballots on Monday, November 20 gave him 13 more votes than former Woodstock supervisor and now West Hurley resident Tracy Kellogg, who was making her third run for the position on Democratic, Green and Working Family party lines.
At the other end of the spectrum, Jeff Beals, who repeatedly reminded the crowd he taught school in Woodstock and that his kids played on the playground at the community center, probably should be running for town board.
That number did not even include the local kids who were too young for school, who went to private school, or who lived just over the town line.
Last December I went on a lovely family getaway to Miami, then January came and one of my friends — who also happens to be an amazing PR girl — asked me if I was up for a different Miami experience... No kids, a boutique apartment with one of my favorite New York blog friends, and hosting a few events at some of the hottest spots in town.
If you are one of the Kiwi singles who just can't make up their mind about having kids, then you can find equally confused company in Stratford in Taranaki, a farming town that earns the title of most indecisive place in the country (at least where children are concerned).
This was the SAME guy who ended up leaving town to go back to the estranged wife from hell who treated his kid so badly.
Beyond that, «Rise» also focuses on the kids who make up the high school in this depressed, working class town.
Kenny Wormald takes the Kevin Bacon role of Ren, a hard - edged Boston kid who moves in with relatives in the small Georgia town of Bomont, which is still recovering from a tragedy that inspired the passage of several rules about teenage behavior, among them a dance ban.
Fish - out - of - water high school football coach Jim White (played by sports movie king Kevin Costner) moves with his wife (Maria Bello) and two daughters to the small, Mexican - American migrant worker town of McFarland, CA and decides to start a cross country team at the school after noticing four kids in his gym class who excel at running.
Kenny Wormald stars as a city kid who moves to conservative Midwestern town: «Once there, he ends up leading the repressed teenagers into a...
Kenny Wormald stars as the city kid who moves to conservative Midwestern town and once there, he ends up leading the repressed teenagers into a rebellion against the town...
But with Elastigirl (voiced by Holly Hunter) leaving hubby Mr. Incredible (Craig T. Nelson) home with the kids, there's a new sheriff in town who's not going to suppress her feminist mojo.
We have a murder, an author who dreams about conversations with Edgar Allen Poe (Ben Chaplin), a surreal and eclectic small town, Emo Goth kids and for the most part no discernible direction for the story.
Alan helps the kids out of their predicaments, but he is still bound to play, as well as Sarah (Hunt, Jerry Maguire), who is still in town.
The new - kid - in - town premise is, yes, exceedingly dull, particularly when it feels obliged to deal in a few fairly annoying characters who help expand the environment beyond Zach's new home.
And there's a dangerous new kid in town, a «Jackass» - y guerrilla performer (Jim Carrey, doing pretty much what Tom Cruise did in «Rock of Ages» — self - serious preening, with weirdly off - kilter timing) who gives the bloodthirsty public what it wants: violence, drills to the skull, that kind of thing.
Saban's Power Rangers follows five ordinary high school kids who must become something extraordinary when they learn that their small town of Angel Grove — and the world — is on the verge of being obliterated by an alien threat.
There's the intrigue of a nameless hero whose past forces him into action, and the threat of a villainous kid, who likes to shoot off his mouth almost as much as he likes to shoot his pistol, terrorizing a small, struggling mining town.
A corrupt small - town sheriff is on the hunt for two runaway kids who took his car on a joy ride in Cop Car, an unnervingly funny thriller now available on Digital Read More →
It's March in Lake Victoria and Sherriff Julie Forester (Elisabeth Shue) and Deputy Fallon (Ving Rhames) have their hands full patrolling the 5,000 plus college kids who have descended on the town to celebrate in licentious abandon their week - long school recess, that annual rite - of passage known as spring break.
Dress shopping, hair appointments, the who's who of the town... no it isn't Hollywood's award season, it's that time of year all (okay, the socially normal) high school kids wait for; prom!
The Kid is a self - absorbed braggart who tries to buy his way to the best trainer in town.
The film follows a group of college kids who travel to a small town of Madison County in order to interview an autho, who authored a book about the murders that happened there.
But things get complicated when he meets Elliot (Antonio Marziale), a handsome and charming gay kid from the other side of town, who unwittingly sends Alex on a rollercoaster journey of sexual identity, kicking off a hilarious and moving exploration of love, sex and friendship in our liberated and confusing modern times.
The Magic of Belle Isle is a dramedy about a «wheelchair - bound author moves to a rural town, where he befriends a single mother and her three kids, who help reignite his passion for writing.»
The story, adapted from Alan Snow's book Here Be Monsters, introduces the titular beasties who live underneath the charming streets of a small, quirky town and who crawl out of the sewers at night to steal what the townspeople hold most dear: their kids.
, introduces the beasties who live underneath the streets of a small, quirky town and crawl out of the sewers at night to steal what the townspeople hold most dear: their kids.
Most people remember it as a rock «n» roll flick about a kid who brings back dancing to an uptight Midwestern town where the local preacher has successfully had it banned.
This is the story of a bunch of kids who stumble across a supernatural secret in their small town: a demon that appears in the guise of a clown called Pennywise.
They often resemble a dysfunctional family, composed of three unlovable types: 1) aspiring politicians for whom this is a rung on the ladder to higher office; 2) former employees of the school system with a score to settle; and 3) single - minded advocates of one dubious cause or another who yearn to use the public schools to impose their particular hang - up on all the kids in town.
It was clear to me and my classmates 40 years ago, as we gazed out the window during English class in our all - boys high school (a Catholic seminary) and watched the teenage kids from town «making out» on a stone wall; at least it was clear to Father Ignatius, who would threaten a «bastinado with salt rubbed in the wounds» if we didn't focus on the sentence that needed diagramming.
And they sometimes attract talented adults — and the firms that employ such folks — to move to town because they can see education offerings there that they want for their daughters and sons, kids who may become tomorrow's scientists and engineers and thus help boost the nation's competitiveness in the global market.
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