Word: neighbored
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...hiding and sang baritone last week. The show spills onto the streets of Greenwich Village, where a woman in a sun hat looks up at the high-rise where reputed Mob boss Vincent ("the Chin") Gigante, the Oddfather who roamed the streets in his bathrobe, was her most famous neighbor...
...Chin is faking his near coma. But they agreed that wearing a bathrobe on the street pushes neither the fashion nor the mental-health envelope in Greenwich Village. There is universal love for Gigante's late mother Yolanda. "She was cooking, cooking, all the time cooking," says a neighbor. "She'd give me a hug and talk in Italian, and I'd just nod. I'm Jewish." Asked for her name, she slowly backs away. "No," she says. "They might kill...
...have testified, "and if they convict Gigante through these nefarious means, it's a death knell for this neighborhood. You used to be able to leave your doors and windows open around here. For years Gigante has been a benevolent presence, and I'd rather have him as a neighbor than any cop in the Sixth Precinct...
...work of Tony Orlando and Dawn. Early in her book about the ways in which American society still fails to indoctrinate girls into a sexually confident adulthood, Wolf uses the singing group's Knock Three Times--a song about a guy who has a crush on a cute neighbor he doesn't know--as an example of how teenage girls in the 1960s and '70s were taught to be blank images rather than real people. Never mind that the era gave rise to a slew of empowering female singer-songwriters; in Wolf's distorted algebra Tony Orlando cancels...
...haven't become our neighbor. You've become our landlord," said Marti A. Glynn, executive director of the center. "For us, $1 million is our life savings...