Word: neighborism
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Vacation plans were put aside when he was offered Planet of the Apes. Which brings us back to Covina, on that day in 1960 when Baker caused panic by covering a neighbor boy with a fake third-degree burn. "I realized it was a pretty sick thing to do," he says. That's when little Rick turned his attention to primates. "Because of King Kong, the gorilla was the perfect Hollywood monster. I really felt it was something that I could do. So I started on this quest at a very early age." And that's how Rick Baker ended...
...late 1970s. The corner stores, bars on Broadway and Catholic schools he mentions still occupy the same spots, do the same business. But the neighborhood infamous for its racist tendencies, ethnic uniformity and hatred of outsiders that MacDonald so vividly describes is no more. Our most helpful neighbor is a young Puerto Rican father. He lives next door to an elderly Irish-American man. In the concrete courtyard, black and white children giggle together over games of tag. I feel secure walking through the tunnels connecting the buildings, formerly the site of countless drug deals, late at night. Southie...
...campaign's mythologizing of the place is outsized. "It's a place where the sky is as big as your dreams," gushes an aide. The reality of Bush's Midland is not as ideal as advertised. "The rewards are pretty disproportionately given out," says Bush's boyhood next-door neighbor Randall Roden. "There was some diversity with Indians and Mexicans, but you didn't find them owning oil companies or running them." In the 1950s the Midland Bush knew was prosperous and virtually all white, a town legally segregated just like others in the South. Even now, if you scratch...
...nominations and success of "West Wing" should serve to make us all admit that we don't really enjoy watching actual "reality," as in seeing Bob the next-door neighbor replace the engine on his lawn mower, but rather that we enjoy watching some network's idea of reality via a neatly edited month or two on a tropical island where no one is going to starve to death and Band-Aids are readily available if you get blisters. Let's face it: If we really liked reality programs (notice the absence of quotation marks, indicating genuine realism), C-Span...
...Cambridge resident called CPD to report that her neighbor rang her doorbell and started screaming at her. The neighbor threatened to punch her in the face, claiming that the resident touched her baby carriage...