Word: neighborly
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...refer all interested readers to the brilliantly remastered version of Hitchcock's 1954 thriller Rear Window, in which a bored and bedridden Jimmy Stewart (in a full-leg cast after a run-in with a racecar) witnesses what he thinks is a murder: his salesman neighbor's wife disappears the night that the salesman makes several early-morning trips out of the apartment, carrying a suitcase, in the rain. The movie itself is shot entirely from Stewart's vantage-point at his rear window and is a fascinating exploration of voyeurism, inference and 1950s haute couture...
...answers were as well researched as any of the others I got. And since you're posting questions to people who just like being helpful--instead of professionals billing by the hour--the exchange can feel as friendly and personal as leaning over a picket fence and asking a neighbor how he keeps his lawn so green. It also means you might get some pretty weird answers--or none...
...could, after all, get a pair of high-power binoculars and start spying on your neighbor tomorrow morning. But you won't. Not because you can't, not because it's illegal, not because you're not interested; to be human is to be a busybody. You won't do it because it is beneath you. Because you know it is wrong, and you would be ashamed of yourself...
...Harrel: I think that plays a part in international people. Religion emphasizes love thy neighbor. You're literally supposed to reach out to people. It's not a country to be waiting in the line in the store and you're just talking to someone. If I'm waiting at an airport I talk to a person I just met, you know? Likewise I know who my neighbors are. My roommate from New York doesn't not know his neighbors. He's lived in the same house his entire life, with same neighbors, and he doesn't know their first...
Once the minute had passed, Mazur told his class, "turn to your neighbor and see if you can convince your neighbor what the right answer...