Word: neighborhood
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...trying to extricate reality from the tales it later inspired. Sometimes, as he has so often pointed out, the gap between the two proves enormous. Roth describes his Newark childhood in warm, elegiac terms that completely invert the cramped, maddening domesticity endured by Alexander Portnoy: "Our lower- middle-class neighborhood of houses and shops -- a few square miles of tree-lined streets at the corner of the city bordering on residential Hillside and semi-industrial Irvington -- was as safe and peaceful a haven for me as his rural community would have been for an Indiana farm...
...republic's 41 million people live in the city whose very name means capital, yet the feel of the place is oddly uncongested. Here is not just another high-rising Asian metropolis, like Hong Kong or Singapore or Taipei, but a compact and manageable place of little lanes and neighborhood stores, of tree-lined streets given a sense of space and rough lyricism by the granite hills that surround them. Nature is more in evidence here than Industry: to go from one downtown hotel to another, one drives around the side of Namsan (South Mountain...
...father started out shining shoes, mowing lawns and "watching cars" in that estimable neighborhood. When he eventually found formal work, ultimately as a brakeman on the railroad, it carried him far from home for considerable stretches. With a willow switch, Mary took charge. "She applied some disciplines just for discipline's sake," recalls Jackie, "like making us wear our clothes back-to-back. 'Why the same thing two days in a row?' I'd plead. 'Can't I stagger them?' 'No,' she'd say. 'This is the rule of the house...
Although the Democratic primary race for the state senate seat in the Suffolk and Middlesex district was far from a friendly competition, that changed last night as the whole thing turned into a neighborhood party...
...extent of the playground takeover was dramatized recently when Gregory Vaughn, 33, a high school coach and former Queens College star, was asked to referee a neighborhood game. Vaughn, who had helped many youngsters develop their court skills as an incentive to go to college, made some calls that angered the gamblers. He was followed off the playground and fatally beaten by a known thug. The stakes in the contest were estimated...