Word: neighborly
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...helplessly fascinated and regularly appalled by the physical appearance of things. There is, for instance, the "hideous" building in Manhattan where her husband works. "When you see this building you can think only one thing. 'WHY?' is the thing. 'Why? Why? Why?'" A Nantucket neighbor's exercise pants elicit the same befuddlement: "Why wear anything like that on these hot summer days...
...stage image a tree in full blossom, with a broken trunk. The big scenes are somewhat muted (Marjorie Yates' Linda and Mark Strong's Biff are good if unmemorable) but the small ones achingly poignant--like the mix of awe and desolation with which Willy marvels at next-door neighbor Bernard's success: "Your friends have their own private tennis court?" What emerges most clearly in this version is Miller's critique of capitalism: Willy is less a tragic figure brought down by his flaws than the pawn of a system that sells a dream, then cannot deliver...
...suppose that there's an opening for someone to call Orthodox Jews like me "fundamentalists" because we take the Torah--Biblical and Rabbinic law--so seriously and without emendation. Perhaps Rita Lin needs to be reminded that these laws--which we obey seriously and without emendation--include loving ones neighbor, returning a lost object and giving charity to the poor. I remember what the rabbis used to tell me in the Orthodox yeshiva (school for higher Jewish education) in Israel that I attended for a year. One rabbi there explained to me once how it was wrong to borrow someone...
...taking a holiday break. Trie, 48, has played a small but supporting role in Clinton's life for more than a decade. The two men met when Trie ran a Chinese restaurant located near the Capitol in Little Rock named Fu Lin (in Chinese, it can mean "enrich your neighbor"). Clinton became a regular at Fu Lin, which hosted an unusually generous luncheon buffet. A friendship sprouted, and Clinton named Trie to the Arkansas State fire extinguisher board...
...Harris used to be on welfare and now works at the Carter Center, where her two children are in day-care programs. "If I didn't work here, I would still want my children here," she says. "[Otherwise] your child could sit at home all day or at the neighbor's home watching TV. That would be my worry--that my child's not learning enough...