Word: neighborly
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...songs on the Worst of the Worst can be compelling in their awfulness. Songs like Richard Hackley's rabble-rousing, hackles-raising spiritual God's Backhand ("We're not talking about tennis or Ping-Pong!") or Offwight Radiator's inexplicable alterna-dirge Sent Fishing by Your Neighbor (those are the only lyrics) fascinate in the way the best outsider art often does. In the words of J.A. Moore, one of the Worst of the Worst's favorite artists, "It's just a funky mystery...
...said anything. "Everyone knew who was involved," says Charles Robertson, two-time mayor of the hard-knock river town of York, Pa. "But everyone just thought it was even. One black had been killed and one white--even." He was reflecting on the week of July 1969 that turned neighbor against neighbor, blacks against whites. By the time it ended, part of York lay in smoldering ruins and National Guard tanks patrolled the streets. "But everyone thought it was even." And for nearly the rest of the century the carnage remained an open, unpursued secret: no accounting, no justice. Then...
...this family feels whole. It feels as if it works. My single parenthood is probably like the experience of millions of others--we have kids, pets, homes, jobs and ex-spouses in our lives. When we say, "Hi, honey, I'm home," it is to the baby sitter, the neighbor or a relative who has come over to help with child care. We don't go out much. We don't travel much. We cobble together work, meals and outside activities. Financially, we don't do as well as married parents, but we cling to the consolation prize of fiscal...
...issue is respect,” Younger said. “All we’re asking is for Harvard to be a good neighbor...
...fulfill the hopes and desires of others. Populating that plot is an array of stock characters from classic French cinema, updated with comically magnified conditions, obsessions and idiosyncrasies. Amélie's jilted concierge tipples port in the presence of a pet dog preserved by taxidermy. The wise, grandfatherly neighbor from whom Amélie seeks guidance is a misanthropic crank. Even Amélie's beloved goldfish is suicidal...