Word: neighborly
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...generalize the collective consciousness of his readers. That this method works, however, suggests the declining individuality of modern Americans. Today’s average American reader watches the same television, reads the same novels and holds roughly the same outlook on the outside world as his suburban nextdoor neighbor. The reader empathizes with Ford’s characters because their fictional lives are as generic and homogeneous...
...antennas, shop windows, on top of other American flags. The whole thing smacks of a conspiracy by the American Flag Production Industry. The larger the ethnic group that fears for their safety, the more American flags get sold. This explains the sudden abundance of “Is your neighbor really a WASP or is he just another terrorist?” and “Got Flags? Oh, you must be a terrorist, then” billboards along our nation’s highways...
...loss to understand the objections,” wrote Dean of the Faculty Jeremy R. Knowles in an e-mail. “If I were a neighbor, I’d be petitioning Harvard please to build a tunnel and thus improve my neighborhood...
...work without government accreditation and allows foreign correspondents into the country only for specific events. It was part of a legislative package aimed at stifling dissent. INDIA Hard-Line India test-fired a second missile in less than a week but denied it was linked to increased tension with neighbor Pakistan. New Delhi said its troops killed five Pakistan-based militants attempting to cross into Indian-held Kashmir in the first major incursion since Pakistan promised a crackdown on such groups. Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee rejected calls by Pakistan for new talks. JAPAN Cabinet Kerfuffle Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi...
...mother inexplicably abandons the child soon after delivery. Dawson names his daughter Lucy Diamond, after the Beatles song (this is only the first of a multitude of Beatles references that grow wearisome by the second hour). Not knowing how to take care of a baby, Dawson asks his neighbor (Diane Wiest) for parenting advice. Dawson’s shortcomings—he has the mental capacity of a seven-year-old—are played for laughs at the movie’s onset (he fastens Lucy’s diaper with large pin-on buttons), but it soon becomes...