Rieux is like a witness who exercises restraint when called to testify about a crime ; he describes what the characters said and did, without speculating about their thoughts and feelings, although he does offer generalized assessments of the shifting mood of the town as a whole.

" Horn in the West ", a dramatization of the life and times of the early settlers of the mountain area, which features Daniel Boone as one of its characters, has been performed in an outdoor amphitheatre above the town every summer since 1952.

In Ernest Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises, three of the characters visit the town en route to Pamplona, Spain.

Other characters appeared from time to time, for one episode, often just visiting town.

Spenser and Hawk live in the same Boston literary universe as Parker's other, newer series characters: private investigator Sunny Randall and small town police chief Jesse Stone, the former of whom was possibly mentioned in passing as a blonde jogging with an English bull terrier ( named Rosie in the Randall novels ) while the latter had a much larger role in Back Story.

The main exception to this was the Australian Broadcasting Corporation produced Something in the Air, a rural-based serial examining a range of characters in a small country town.

All the characters and groups in the play had direct counterparts in real life, with Ui representing Hitler, his henchman Ernesto Roma representing Ernst Röhm, Dogsborough representing Paul von Hindenburg ( a pun on the German Hund and Burg ), Emanuele Giri representing Hermann Göring, Giuseppe Givola representing Joseph Goebbels, the Cauliflower Trust representing the Prussian Junkers, the fate of the town of Cicero standing for the Anschluss in Austria and so on.

Both Beautiful Girls and October Road take place in the fictional Massachusetts town of Knights Ridge, and have similar characters, jobs, plot lines.

In Anthony Powell's novel What's Become of Waring the central characters spend a long summer holiday in Toulon's old town.

Even minor characters like Prentice's grandmother, the fictional town of Gallanach, and his family's home in Lochgair are carefully described, giving Prentice's life depth and context.

Many poets, artists, environmentalists and numerous eccentric characters reside in Katoomba ( and the Blue Mountains, generally ) and the town hosts the well-patronised Winter Solstice festival, Winter Magic, that features local talent, art and handicraft.

The Stage Manager opens the act with a lengthy monologue emphasizing eternity, and introduces us to the cemetery outside of town and the characters who died in the nine years since Act Two: Mrs Gibbs ( pneumonia, while traveling ), Wally Webb ( burst appendix, while camping ), Mrs Soames, and Simon Stimson ( suicide by hanging ), among others.

Both characters appeared previously in The Dark Half and Needful Things, set in the fictional town of Castle Rock.

In order to inspire more vitriolic commentary from the local men, Hopper told them the characters of Billy, Wyatt, and George had raped and killed a girl outside of town.

Wells ' The War of the Worlds told from the perspective of a small town Texas sheriff ( a homage to Slim Pickens ) who finds an off-course Martian cylinder crashing down near his town ; " Heirs of the Perisphere " involves robotic Disney characters waking up in the far future ; " Fin de Cyclé " describes the Dreyfus affair from the perspective of bicycle enthusiasts.

* On television the town became known in the sitcom, Terry and June where Terry and June Medford ( Terry Scott and June Whitfield ), had moved after the characters ' previous series, Happy Ever After.

In Sarah Orne Jewett's novel Country of the Pointed Firs, one of the characters, Mrs. Todd, harvests pennyroyal in a field north of the town.

It is set in the same fictional town of Pine Cove, California, as his first novel, Practical Demonkeeping, and also brings back some of the same characters.

In " The Lightning Keeper ," a 2006 novel by Starling Lawrence ( editor-in-chief of W W Norton ), the town of Beecher's Bridge is based on Norfolk, to which the author's family has longstanding ties, and some of the novel's characters echo actual Norfolkians of the late 19th and early 20th century.

* In Episode 210 of 30 Rock, two characters agree to meet halfway between New York City and Washington, DC, which they claim to be the mining town of " Hockassin ," Pennsylvania.

Her book, " Stories of a Sanctified town ", was so true to life that the residents of Robards recognized her characters in spite of changed names and combination of locales.

In this play there were so many characters and so much detail.

In this play there were some thirty or more named characters and I don't know how many more unnamed.

They were a vagabond lot and considered to be shady and undesirable characters.

To include all these, and control characters compatible with the Comité Consultatif International Téléphonique et Télégraphique ( CCITT ) International Telegraph Alphabet No. 2 ( ITA2 ) standard, Fieldata, and early EBCDIC, more than 64 codes were required for ASCII.

The first two columns ( 32 positions ) were reserved for control characters.

Many of the non-alphanumeric characters were positioned to correspond to their shifted position on typewriters.

Christie occasionally inserted stereotyped descriptions of characters into her work, particularly before the end of the Second World War ( when such attitudes were more commonly expressed publicly ), and particularly in regard to Italians, Jews, and non-Europeans.

Most notably are the characters of Dr. Eric Leidner in Murder in Mesopotamia, Signor Richetti in Death on the Nile, and many minor characters in They Came to Baghdad were archaeologists.

Agathon introduced certain innovations into the Greek theater: Aristotle tells us in the Poetics that the characters and plot of his Anthos were original and not, following Athenian dramatic orthodoxy, borrowed from mythological subjects.

A good example of the contempt the first democrats felt for those who did not participate in politics can be found in the modern word ' idiot ', which finds its origins in the ancient Greek word, idiōtēs, meaning a private person, a person who is not actively interested in politics ; such characters were talked about with contempt, and the word eventually acquired its modern meaning.

The characters and lands created by the children had newspapers, magazines and chronicles which were written in extremely tiny books, with writing so small it was difficult to read without a magnifying glass.

Because the characters were 8 x 12 pixels this meant that video resolutions of 512 x 192 pixels ( in 64x16 character mode ), or 640 x 300 pixels ( in 80x24 character mode ) were created, which was quite high for the time.

Prior to the year 1878, all apostolic letters and briefs requiring for their validity the leaden seal were engrossed upon rough parchment and in Gothic characters ( round letters, also called Gallicum and commonly Bollatico, but in Italy today Teutonic ) without lines, or diphthongs, or marks of punctuation.

Other Flexowriter characters that were found a use in Atlas Autocode were: in floating-point numbers, e. g. for modern ; to mean " the second half of an Atlas memory word "; for the mathematical pi number.

From the early 1940s to the late 1950s, there were scores of Sunday strip-style magazine ads for Cream of Wheat using the Abner characters, and in the 1950s, Fearless Fosdick became a spokesman for Wildroot Cream-Oil hair tonic in a series of daily strip-style print ads.

Dogpatch characters were used in national campaigns for the Cancer Foundation, the March of Dimes, the National Heart Fund, the Boy Scouts of America, Minnesota Tuberculosis and Health Association, the National Amputation Foundation, and Disabled American Veterans, among others.

Creodont characters were displayed in the skeleton.

Karagöz and Hacivat shadow play characters were historic personalities who lived and are buried in Bursa.

Morton introduced the recurring characters and continuing stories that were a major feature of the column during his 51-year run.

Rather than the more aristocratic themes and music of the Italian opera, the ballad operas were set to the music of popular folk songs and dealt with lower-class characters.

This approach also led quickly, as it did in T & T, to players playing a wide range of non-human characters and game worlds that were deeply pluralist.

* Many of the characters and musical themes of Bubble Bobble were used by Taito in a tile-matching video game Puzzle Bobble ( a. k. a. Bust-a-Move ) and its sequels.