Word: neighborly
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...clara, the rough-brewed beer the state sells on Sunday in the town plaza, has loosened his tongue. For 30 years his life was good, he says, until dollars were allowed. "I worked, I earned my pay, my family could live just like my neighbors." But he has no family in the U.S. to send money, no relatives working in tourism to collect tips. "Some people can have dollars; I only earn pesos," says Alberto. "The people with dollars can buy a pair of shoes, and I cannot. Why should my neighbor have more than...
...been mute since the age of six and for whom the piano is her only voice, is devastated by its loss. She turns to George Baines (Harvey Keitel), an illiterate neighbor of theirs who has "gone native." Baines eventually makes a deal with Stewart, trading the piano for a piece of land. As part of the deal, Ada is forced to give Baines lessons. He's not interested in learning to play, and so he offers to give Ada back her piano if she allows him to do certain things while she plays, one key for every lesson...
...only there weren't other people around. Flight attendants banging, drinks spilling, babies crying. And the occasional insane neighbor. Like the man who gave me his personal theory on nuclear disarmament over a trip from Logan to Washington National. Wedged between the window and his unceasing chatter, I buried my head in The Scarlet Letter, trying to look too engrossed to talk. The guy in the aisle seat pretended he didn't speak English. I lost...
...that were the case, Schlup would have little or no hope. He was never an angel. After stealing a neighbor's truck on a prank, Schlup, high on insecticide spray, beat up and raped a fellow inmate at the county jail. "I can't tell you why it happened. There's no excuse for what I did," he said. Sentenced to 14 years' hard labor at Jefferson City, the state's maximum- security prison, Schlup slashed a predatory cellmate in a fight over sex and was sentenced to life in prison...
...trying to crush her, Stewart decides. Ada has only two loves in this bleak world: her nine-year-old daughter Flora (Anna Paquin) and her piano. After Stewart cavalierly sells the instrument to his neighbor Baines (Keitel), Ada strikes a bargain with Baines. Under the guise of giving him lessons, she will buy the piano back from him, one black key at a time, by allowing certain sexual favors. One key is hers if she raises her skirt; two keys to let him touch her bare arm; five; 10 . . . Ada can win what she needs by meting out what...