Word: neighborhood
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...taped conversations between Nixon and Special Counsel Charles Colson: " 'Sleazy' was the first word that came to my mind as I listened . . . It sounded like two cheap ward heelers talking in the rear room of a neighborhood dive...
...Does Nader really live in the house on Washington's Bancroft Place that his brother bought in 1971 for $80,000 rather than in the spartan $85-a-month room he claims as his residence? Sanford found a local resident who says he sees Nader in the neighborhood "at odd hours nearly every day." That is hardly conclusive evidence...
...months after the disaster, crime rose 41% on the eastern shore, while downtown rates were falling. Car theft shot up almost 50% in the isolated community, and neighborhood quarrels and complaints rose 300%. With no hospital facilities on the eastern shore, weary general practitioners were inundated with increasingly testy and fearful patients...
...boys found it and took it outside in the streets to play. They had apparently been squabbling earlier with some neighborhood children. One of the boys waved it in a girl's face and said, "I'm going to shoot you, and I'm not going to miss." Then the three-year-old grasped the gun in both hands and pointed it at another child on the street, Jeffery Krauch, 6. The three-year-old's brother cocked the pistol. The three-year-old fired it into Jeffery's chest. Jeffery stood for an instant...
Aristocratic Lesbian. Theroux manages to make this simulacrum of a nuclear family both chilling and pathetic. Hood clandestinely murders a neighborhood hoodlum, then takes on the support of the victim's unwitting wife and child. He feels responsible for his.own "family" as well and finds himself playing a stern Victorian father when Brodie is seduced by an aristocratic lesbian. Meanwhile, the threatened I.R.A. London offensive remains stalled, and a host of coconspirators barges into the complicated story. On this surface, The Family Arsenal glitters. American-born, Theroux has nonetheless acquired an ear for varieties of British speech. His book...