Word: neighborhood
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Depending on what service one subscribes to, one is immediately put into a certain mode of thinking, a certain virtual world: some services have diagrams of a neighborhood where, for instance, one would click on a picture of a theater on the street to gain access to entertainment Web sites, or on a bank to gain access to financial services...
...would participate all chose the same metaphor: when your building is burning, they said, you don't worry about the pedigree of the fire fighters. In Washington last weekend, Donnie Scantlebury, 19, a college student from Houston, talked about "friends who died from suicides, fights, drugs. In any black neighborhood, everyone has seen friends killed or taken off to jail. I want people to see we can get together without fighting." In Brooklyn salesman Kirk McNeil, 29, was more matter-of-fact. "I expect the march to change my life," he said...
TIPTOEING PAST THE DANK AND murk of the Manhattan neighborhood called Hell's Kitchen, you walk into a huge tent where Pomp Duck and Circumstance is performed and enter a different world. Inside the bordello-red lobby area, tuxedoed giants and midgets say hello. In an alcove, T shirts and robes with a Matisse monogram are for sale. So are the pieces of Rosenthal china on which you will dine. A bartender pours you a glass of the house Chardonnay. Nine bucks...
Citizen after citizen spoke about the aesthetic importance of neighborhood character and said that they vehemently supported the proposed Arsenal Square extension of the Old Cambridge Historic District, which would mandate the preservation of the buildings on the hotel's proposed site...
...significance of the buildings makes their preservation necessary," said Cambridge Councillor Francis H. Duehay '55, a nearby resident. "It is not appropriate to tear down these historic houses and put in a parking lot which would not be congenial to the neighborhood...