Word: neighborism
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...Many of them are blank, some of them are write-ins, but they could change the results,” said Teresa S. Neighbor, executive director of the Election Commission and director of “The Count,” which began last night at the Senior Citizen’s Center and will resume today...
...have two police officers here overnight watching the ballots,” Neighbor said...
...Last week a Florida courtroom bore witness to a scene photocopied from the one that riveted a nation in 1995: O.J. SIMPSON mouthing the words thank you to a jury that had just rendered a not-guilty verdict. The charges this time were battery and auto burglary. Simpson's neighbor Jeffrey Pattinson alleged that the former NFL star ran a stop sign, nearly causing an accident, went verbally ballistic on him when Pattinson honked his horn and finally yanked his glasses off. Simpson said Pattinson drove up behind him, sat on his horn and "went off" when approached. Wound alleged...
...concerns aside, what sets Amélie apart from its peers is the film’s refusal to take itself too seriously. Certainly, Amélie’s relationship with the Man of Glass (an elderly neighbor so named for his severe bone disease) adds an intellectual counterpoint to all the levity. But just when it seems that Jeunet is establishing another dour subplot, he kicks it to the curb with one of the film’s simplest and best jokes. It’s clear that Jeunet and his cast are having fun with this film...
Since his initial visit to the License Commission, the small, soft-spoken Iftikhar’s life has become a series of disappointments. Due to years of noise complaints from the pizzeria’s neighbor, the License Commission refused to grant Iftikhar a permit to close the pizzeria at 3 a.m. last spring—but promised Iftikhar a hearing to reassess the noise situation in six months...