Word: neighborly
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...Clare (Jacqueline Bisset), a onetime sitcom queen keen for a comeback, has buried her swinish husband Sidney (Paul Mazursky), who materializes and pledges his infernal love to her. Clare's neighbor, Lisabeth (Mary Woronov), has just moved in with her daughter Zandra (Rebecca Schaeffer) because the exterminators are at her house, removing every trace of her ex-husband. Now these women and two others must fend off, or hop on, a platoon of randy males: Lisabeth's wormy ex (Wallace Shawn); her playwright brother (Ed Begley Jr.); her invalid prodigy son (Barrett Oliver); and two manservants, sleazy, pansexual Frank...
...work camps, the California Youth Authority runs voluntary classes in which inmates study property crimes, domestic violence, sexual assault, child abuse, homicide and victims' rights. Some offenders do eventually express remorse. Says one Giddings boy, a middle- class 15-year-old from Austin who raped his eight-year-old neighbor: "I realize how society really looks at rape. Sometimes at night I sit up crying. I look back and say that could never have been...
...fact for students is this: a community does not learn to resolve the past's legacy of anger and injustice by ignoring the problem in the present. We cannot understand our neighbor if we never see him. That only 1.8 percent of Harvard's just under 400 senior faculty are Black is troubling, nearly outrageous...
...center of the controversy is a pretrial hearing that ended last week in the same Bronx, N.Y., courthouse that was depicted in Tom Wolfe's best seller The Bonfire of the Vanities. Joseph Castro, a 38-year-old janitor, stands accused of killing a neighbor and her two-year-old daughter. According to the prosecutors, a portion of DNA extracted from a spot of blood on Castro's watch matched DNA taken from the murdered mother. The chance of such a match occurring at random, said scientists called by the prosecution, was 1 in 100 million...
...People can't figure out why we're out here and why we aren't bored," says Gerry Bloomquist, enjoying the sunset with her neighbor Mary Lueth. Back home in Minnesota, the Bloomquists and Lueths live an hour apart; here in the desert they live at either end of a laundry line. "Oops, there's our noise for the day," cracks Gerry, looking up at four Army helicopters...