Word: neighborhood
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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When Walter and Anna (Tom Hanks and Shelley Long) find their dream house (actually, it is a mansion, long on charm and short on viable plumbing), they neglect to check the neighborhood. And nobody tells them their property is located deep in Harold Lloyd country, where anything that can go wrong will and all the repairmen are incompetent or venal...
...temporal majesty than his spiritual inspiration, they try to become a part of the pageant by seeing him, seeking a blessing or, in one case, attempting to blow him up. At the same time that the Pope is visiting, Movie Director Billy Einhorn passes through his old neighborhood, and most of the Pope watchers also try to solicit Einhorn's attention; for these hungering egos, any notice, any brush with glory, will do. The upshot is at least four deaths, three shattered romances, one imprisonment, one resignation from a convent and the needless scorching of two Brillo pads...
...Newman responded by seeking an additional 3,000 officers. A row on the subject has even erupted in the House of Commons, where Tory Backbencher Winston Churchill wants to ban violence and sex on television. Says Dr. Gillian Mezey, who has studied rape in London's riot-torn Brixton neighborhood: "In places like Brixton, where there are no jobs and terrible housing, women are just easy targets of aggression...
...fire that destroyed 61 homes and killed six Move members and five of their children. The children's deaths, the panel said, "appear to be unjustified homicides." The commission also commented that the bombing would not have happened had the house been in a "comparable white neighborhood." Goode replied that he hopes the voters will not judge him "on one day and one event...
Some workers get so freaked out on drugs that they become a menace to everyone around them. A meter reader for a Washington utility became crazed after taking PCP and ran from one backyard to another. He hid behind bushes and jumped out and screamed at frightened neighborhood residents until police arrested him. In New Jersey a dentist who injected himself with three syringes of cocaine every morning as he drove down the turnpike to work began to complain that the fillings he was putting into patients' mouths were talking to him. His partners quickly forced the dentist to sell...