Word: neighborhood
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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After a detailed examination of the area in the mid-to-late '70s, the city proposed a master plan to "rehabilitate an underutilized area of the city to make it more accessible to the neighborhood," said Lester W. Barber, director of land use for the city...
Other rental emporiums attract customers with monstrous selections. California-based Tower Records has opened a series of video superstores that stock 10,000 movies, compared with the 2,000 titles in a typical neighborhood shop. With so many alternatives, few consumers feel any loyalty to one store. If the movie they want is out of stock, they simply drive a few blocks to a competitor's shop...
...compete by offering more personal service and refined video titles. Husband-and-Wife Entrepreneurs Brad and Leslie Burnside of Evanston, Ill., who plan this month to open their third Video Adventure store, attract an upscale clientele by stocking foreign titles and films featuring dance and opera. Unless other neighborhood video shops find such niches, they could conceivably go the way of the malt shop and the soda fountain...
...papers. Dubus may have decided that such wasted lives are America's fault; he may even be right. But the case made by his fiction is far more complex and intriguing. In Rose, a nameless middle-age narrator starts chatting casually about a fellow habitue of Timmy's, a neighborhood bar in a town, once again in Massachusetts, on the Merrimack River. Her name is Rose; she is disheveled, disreputable, and she has a past that she confides to her barfly acquaintance one snowy Friday night. The teller of this tale takes his time getting around...
...Reading skills will be shared best in a truly warm and neighborhood setting. Anything else will deter illiterates," he said...