The upper Mae Nam (River) Mun Valley of northeast Thailand has been occupied at least since the Bronze Age, but is notable for the rapid expansion of intense town-based Iron Age settlement.
In fact, it starts in a workaday neighborhood dominated by the Hale Boggs Federal Building, the John Minor Wisdom Court of Appeals, the federal courthouse and the imposing Texaco building -- one of the few places in the world's most intense party town where you can see large numbers of men and women in gray suits.
Opinions about the war on terrorism are intense among this town's 245 residents, some of whom had never heard of Iraq before the Sept. 11 attacks.
(As I noted in an article in Sunday's Times, the divide has led to ill will, often intimate and intense, in small towns and rural areas).
A draft released in early 2015 has drawn intense opposition in towns up and down the coast, though governors of most of the affected states have come out in support of the plans.
Mr. Cerveris offered a simmeringly intense "Quiet Girl" ("Wonderful Town").
It follows intense fighting in a town close to the disaster site, where government forces are trying to wrestle back control of rebel-held territory.
Sleepy during the day thanks to the often intense Saharan heat, the town comes alive after dark with lively cafes and restaurants.
As in Wake in Fright (1971) and Dead End Drive-in (1986), the town's intense sense of community obscures a nasty underbelly.
The deaths of the Athens, Ala., police officers aroused intense emotions in the town, and Mr. Barksdale was found competent to stand trial despite an extensive history of severe mental illness.
WICHITA, Kan .— The recruitment of the nation's top high school football player, tailback Bryce Brown, has been so intense that he left town to escape the hoopla surrounding Wednesday's national signing day.
