Word: neighborism
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...surrounding streets are plagued with crime. Meddle in someone else's affairs and you never know what might happen. So when Valerie Tompkins opened her windows one day last summer and breathed in the foul stench of urine, she was not inclined to investigate. She knew that her upstairs neighbor, Antoine Yates, 37, kept exotic pets, but why ask for trouble? She just closed the window again. Darryl Carter, whose girlfriend lives down the hall from Yates, knew about the pets too. "He just loved animals," Carter told TIME last week. "He had a book full of pictures...
...Know It (And I Feel Fine).” While much has been made of André’s exhortation to “Shake it like a Polaroid picture,” the neglected “Lend me some sugar, I am your neighbor!” passage displays much more subtlety (and less product placement...
Take Craig Wilson's Recent Tragic Events, another off-Broadway arrival, starring Heather Graham as a Minneapolis single woman who has a blind date on the night of Sept. 12. The play wavers between curdled sitcom (the evening is interrupted by a busybody neighbor), witless absurdism (a visit by Joyce Carol Oates--played by a sock puppet) and failed melodrama, as Graham waits for word from her twin sister, who may or may not have been in the towers. Then it all takes off into the stratosphere, with a discourse on free will and determinism, a stage manager's voice...
...each have to pay our share to the government in order that America may stick to those promises. But each of us should pay a percentage of his or her personal income that is exactly equal to that paid by every other American. If I make less than my neighbor, I have no right to pay a lesser percentage; and if I make more, it would only be vindictive to force me to pay a higher percentage...
Evans, the neighbor, said she first heard rumors about the proposed expansion three days before she closed on her house this past August. She thought she was purchasing views of a rustic landscape, but if the arboretum’s plans go through she will be directly across from a fenced-off nursery...