Word: neighborism
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Young Jack Lemmon sits behind the wheel of a convertible in his first film, a 1951 public-service short called Once Too Often. He looks a pleasant fellow, someone to prize as a neighbor in the sunny suburbia of the postwar era. His behavior is that of any blithe burgher: a carefree puff of his cigarette, a heavy foot on the gas pedal, an appreciative glance at a lovely lady as his car draws alongside hers. Then the scene cuts to black and...CRASH!, a sickening fusion of metal and flesh. What begins as comedy, and accelerates toward romance, explodes...
...feet firmly planted in the '40s." Maude knows how to arrange all the right-thinking enlightened attitudes around herself, but when she is challenged they open up like gunwales on a galleon, and she blazes away with broadsides at feckless repairmen, greedy cab drivers and her priggish right-wing neighbor...
DIED. HANK KETCHAM, 81, creator of the impish cartoon character Dennis the Menace and his crotchety neighbor Mr. Wilson; in Pebble Beach, Calif. Ketcham conceived the strip in October 1950 after his own mischievous four-year-old, named Dennis, caused his exasperated mother to exclaim to Ketcham, "Your son is a menace!" (Father and son were later estranged.) In 1951 Ketcham began drawing the strip, which ran for 50 years in 1,000 newspapers and 48 countries...
...These new independents are next door to a stalwart neighbor--Grendel’s Den, which re-opened last year after an elaborate renovation...
...tree falls in the forest and no one hears it, does it make a sound? It is said, oddly enough, that he liked to play golf. A neighbor saw him from time to time on a public course here in the county. The Hermit played alone...