Word: neighborhood
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...move which will likely raise eyebrows and a few suspicions in communities fighting Harvard's expansion, the University yesterday appointed an expert in neighborhood relations as its head of public relations...
Paul S. Grogan, a 1978 Graduate School of Education graduate who once served as Boston's head of neighborhood development, will take office in January as the vice president for government, community and public affairs...
...there is a similar direction to Grogan's appointment, it is likely this: the new vice president leaves his current job as director of a non-profit organization supporting neighborhood renewal...
...Baltimore neighborhood Pecker (Edward Furlong), who takes pictures of its benignly weird denizens, is regarded as a sweetly beamy pest. In the New York art world, however, he comes to be regarded as a divine primitive. You can probably imagine the clash when Waters brings Pecker's blue-collar subjects together with his chic discoverers. Much more fun--as always in Waters' genially transgressive movies--are the rich portrayals of his fellow Baltimoreans, among them Christina Ricci's Laundromat Nazi, Mary Kay Place's fashion-forward thrift-shop owner and Jean Schertler's goofy grandma using a statue...
...club, and she eventually invites him back to her house. Good sex leads to good conversation and then to love, an emotion that fills Kassima with terror and dread. Within a recent span of 10 months, both of her teenage sons were killed by gang violence in her Pittsburgh neighborhood and their father died of aids he contracted in prison. After she sees a gang member threaten Robert on a playground basketball court, Kassima decides that he is another doomed black male and tells him, "I've loved my last dead man. Can't take it anymore... Love...