Word: gray
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Well, satire was never meant to ingratiate, and The 'Burbs is unsparing in its cauterizing of provincialism. One neighbor (played by Bruce Dern with wonderfully psychotic poise and a barbed-wire halo of gray hair) responds to every real or imagined threat to his property values as if he were commanding a platoon in Nam -- with trusty telescope, walkie-talkie and a K ration of animal crackers. Another friend (Rick Ducommun) is your basic bully-wimp who goads Ray into all manner of illicit snooping. And Ray is the mild soul caught in the middle; with no special convictions...
...Robyn Gray, 27, an Atlanta accountant, benefited from a different type of aid. The single parent of a two-year-old daughter, she obtained a mortgage through a program that local bankers set up last year after a newspaper charged that the lenders were deliberately redlining -- or boycotting -- Atlanta's black communities. After hunting for a year for an affordable home in a pleasant neighborhood, Gray took out a 9.25% fixed-rate mortgage. Even then she needed help from her parents to make the $2,500 down payment on her $50,000, three-bedroom home. But without the bank program...
...session led by Thomas. Longtime residents express unfettered affection for their tall, slim mentor, dressed today in a red jumpsuit, brown tweed jacket, black high heels and silver bracelets. "She doesn't judge you from what others say, she judges you from what you say and do," says Monique Gray, a Mandela House veteran of one year. "You can't fool % Minnie," four-month resident Patricia Rodgers admits...
...others, proud, and more than a little scared, are preparing to graduate. One is Gray, 27, who is attending college, lining up a job and planning to leave with her eleven-month-old son. "All my life I was told I was nothing but dirt," says Gray. "Minnie made me believe I wasn't dirt and could do anything I wanted and that I didn't need drugs...
Design-wise, the simple, rectangular building will complement the ultramodern, cement Carpenter Center and the majestic red-brick Fogg without mimicking either. To enhance the structural unity are the proposed exterior materials, "warm gray" porcelain metal panels, honed, green Vermont slate tiles and flame-finished pink granite, "intended to mediate the monolithic scale of the concrete Carpenter Center on the one hand, and the brick of the Fogg on the other...