Word: neighbored
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...show a maze through which the country has been stalked by successive monsters: a coup followed by brutal civil war, careless U.S. policies, strategic bombing, a Marxist revolution so bloody that it came to be called autogenocide, international and regional power politics, liberation and occupation by a hated neighbor, famine, decay and renewed civil...
...going to come, that I'm going to get killed one day," says a fourth-grade boy. Two members of his family were shot to death, and police advised him not to discuss the shootings for fear the killers would return for him. Recently he witnessed a neighbor gunned down as well. "I saw the fire come out of the gun," says the boy. "It hit him in the head, and he fell out." He is struggling to rise above the fear that is around him. He is still very much a child, and school is the one bright spot...
...energetic Paul Benedict, as Scrooge, is the actor you know you know, but you just can't place. (His place, for trivia's sake, is "on the East side, in a deluxe apartment in the sky." He played the off-beat neighbor, Harry Bentley, on television's The Jeffersons.) Benedict dominates the stage throughout, although one does worry that he might keel over due to coronary failure brought on by excessive energy expenditure. The rest of the company, from toddlers on up, performs relatively anonymously but nonetheless effectively as background for Scrooge's transformation...
Bill Clinton may have enjoyed his vacation at the Bloodworth-Thomason's beach house in SUMMERLAND, California, but some wealthy neighbors are sneering about "our tax dollars at play." Huffed one neighbor: "Have you seen the Porta Potties along Padaro Lane?" Others carp that on the $200,000 salary Clinton will earn as President, he is not rich enough to buy a house in the area. Ronald Reagan, of course, lived up the road, but at least he wasn't a Democrat. Sighed a jaded millionaire as Clinton departed: "We survived Carter, and we'll survive...
Having Newbury Comics as a neighbor has helped as well, Wali says. Many avid comic book readers, who are usually also sci-fi fans, make a bee-line straight to Man from Atlantis, Spider-Mans and Batmans in hand...