Word: neighborhood
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...smoke and foreign languages and the Middle East became all mixed up. Algiers was a world I had never known. I knew my mother would hate this smoke-filled cafe, with dim lighting. None of the people there looked like they had grown up in a fifties-style neighborhood, with a back yard and little leagues and barbeques. None of them had ever played badminton...
...reconcile for Tom Dempsey, the man responsible for painting and hanging seventeen streetside works of art over the last two years. But then the whole notion of being a professional artist is something that Tom, who signs his work with the mysterious, yet homey signature of `Tom the Friendly Neighborhood Artist', finds troubling...
...teacher at the Massachusetts College of Art put his first painting up, an abstract work, which he now dismisses as being fairly poor. He chose to sign it "Tom the Friendly Neighborhood Artist" because to put his real name on it would have implied that the city had approved his project. They hadn...
Those class lines, however, are not so easy to cross. Pacot, a run-down but still chic neighborhood, is three miles and another world away from La Saline's slums. In a corner here and there, the brittle, corrupt surface of Papa Doc's Haiti still glitters. Guard dogs run along the tops of security walls, and chauffeured Mercedes Benz slip in and out of driveways leading to Gothic gingerbread houses...
...under fire. Her preschool sister (Geraldine Muir) held on to any available hand. And Bill (Sebastian Rice Edwards), Boorman's seven-year-old surrogate, was thrilled to pieces by the explosive newness of it all. A bombed-out house with all its booty! A Luftwaffe pilot parachuting into the neighborhood! If these adventures can land on his doorstep, what exploits await him in the wide world outside...