Word: neighborly
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...says she learned that her husband had taken the girl to the movies with the free passes recruiters are given for their sign-up campaigns and that he had helped falsify the 18-year-old's enlistment papers to mask her asthma. A neighbor told the wife that shortly after she left town for a trial separation last month, the young girl moved into the recruiter's town house. The neighbor took pictures of the teenager entering and leaving the premises...
...these jets," says Alexander Watson, Clinton's Assistant Secretary of State for Latin American affairs until last spring. Brazilian defense officials viewed expensive new F-16s and F/A-18s as a low priority. Argentina, which has been demilitarizing, was worried at the thought of the jets' being sold to its neighbor Chile. Buenos Aires would have to buy the same planes to keep up. Even Venezuela, the only country given a waiver of the Carter prohibition and allowed to buy 26 F-16s in 1982, parked many of them in hangars much of the time because of the high cost...
...heartthrob is, notoriously, his neighbor's grimmest nightmare: What could he possibly see in her, we ask ourselves, watching the tawdrily dressed, flaky and obsequious woman on his arm (and unable, by definition, to see what he sees in her--and with her--when alone)? And one man's faith is no less impossible for a nonbeliever to fathom: in recent days, millions were celebrating the idea that a man actually rose from the dead, while another doubtless felt that he was committing a holy act that would gain him a place in heaven when he strapped a bomb...
...weather and sensory deprivation, and that you can't show off to outsiders because the moment you do, it's gone. This is a state of people not so far removed from the farm, and farming is a civil business that believes in sharing new information and helping your neighbor. It produces good-hearted people who are tolerant, helpful and friendly. Farming is why the narcissism quotient is low here, and people avoid stupidity when possible, not wanting to be a $10 haircut on a 50[cent] head. The sort of arrogance that amuses New Yorkers is here considered gauche...
...Gabriel Byrne's duty as an enigmatically watchful neighbor-lover-ally patiently to offer her that option, and he does it with his customary brooding grace. It's the duty of a lot of good character actors to keep driving her in the opposite direction, toward the end of her very taut tether. It is the very great pleasure of this movie (well written by Ann Biderman) that its truly haunting suspense derives not from Smilla's conflict with her external enemies but from her own demons...