Word: neighborly
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...himself in wild places where privilege has no meaning. At 65 he's already spent a decade wrestling with Mister Watson, the fierce and accursed and untamable killer who was, by all accounts, "a good husband and a loving father, an expert and dedicated farmer, successful businessman and good neighbor...
Seven weeks later, Dodd found a four-year-old boy playing alone in an elementary school playground. He coaxed Lee Iseli home with him to play some games. "When we got there, I told him he had to be real quiet because my neighbor lady didn't like kids," Dodd said. He then stripped off Lee Iseli's clothes, tied the boy to the bed and began taking Polaroid pictures as he molested the child. He later mounted the photos in a 4-in.-by-6-in. pink photo album labeled FAMILY MEMORIES...
...show a maze through which the country has been stalked by successive monsters: a coup followed by brutal civil war, careless U.S. policies, strategic bombing, a Marxist revolution so bloody that it came to be called autogenocide, international and regional power politics, liberation and occupation by a hated neighbor, famine, decay and renewed civil...
...going to come, that I'm going to get killed one day," says a fourth-grade boy. Two members of his family were shot to death, and police advised him not to discuss the shootings for fear the killers would return for him. Recently he witnessed a neighbor gunned down as well. "I saw the fire come out of the gun," says the boy. "It hit him in the head, and he fell out." He is struggling to rise above the fear that is around him. He is still very much a child, and school is the one bright spot...
...energetic Paul Benedict, as Scrooge, is the actor you know you know, but you just can't place. (His place, for trivia's sake, is "on the East side, in a deluxe apartment in the sky." He played the off-beat neighbor, Harry Bentley, on television's The Jeffersons.) Benedict dominates the stage throughout, although one does worry that he might keel over due to coronary failure brought on by excessive energy expenditure. The rest of the company, from toddlers on up, performs relatively anonymously but nonetheless effectively as background for Scrooge's transformation...