Word: neighborism
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...famous scene is the scruffy restaurant in the train station of Troy, N. Y. It is Thanksgiving 1951. The old lady with her head bowed was a neighbor of Artist Norman Rockwell's. Sadly, she died before the painting appeared on the Saturday Evening Post cover...
...archetypal know-it-all neighbor, country style. Ernest P. Worrell oafishly offers his two cents on any subject before screwing up his face and yelling his trademark "Hey Vern!" But that screwed-up face is the most effective ad phiz in the biz, now that Clara Peller has stopped demanding "Where's the beef?" Five years after his first commercial, Ernest has become a national phenomenon, appearing in nearly 3,000 television ads, almost all of them for local sponsors in 100 TV markets. Last week, on behalf of a soft drink and a bed company, he began assaulting viewers...
...believed to have been the work of the A.N.C. Accusing Lesotho of allowing the outlawed organization to give "crash courses in the use of explosives" to militants who flee into the country, Foreign Minister Roelof ("Pik") Botha initiated the slowdown at the border. Lesotho has long angered its neighbor by its open expressions of solidarity with the A.N.C. and its willingness to accept South African refugees...
...wife Simone Signoret. The film is Jean De Florette, based on the story by Marcel Pagnol and completed on location in southern France three months after Signoret's death in September. Montand, 64, agreed to do the part only after donning the mustache of his character, the mean-spirited neighbor, César Soubeyran. "All of a sudden I saw myself aged ten or 15 years and instead of trying to hold back time I was pushing it ahead." Montand also savored the interplay with Co-Star Gérard Depardieu, "one of the best actors in the world," and the delights...
Police admit they are stymied. Says Francesco Fleury, the district attorney in charge of the investigation: "The man could be your respectable next-door neighbor, a man beyond any suspicion." The authorities thought they had a lead last year. On Sept. 8, two French tourists camped in a tent became the latest victims. The woman's body was slashed 100 times, and one of her breasts was cut off with a sharp instrument. One day later police received an envelope addressed with letters cut from a newspaper. Its grotesque contents: part of the woman's genitalia. On the morning...