Word: neighborly
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...flames. One woman owner of a colonial manse in Holland, 25 miles west of Grand Rapids, plans to build a new home if her offer is accepted, explaining, "I don't like two-story houses. I like a ranch style better." Another helpful lady phoned to recommend her neighbor's house-without telling him-because it was "an eye sore." Director John Carpenter (Halloween) will make the final selection next month, but with the calls coming in from as far away as Houston, it looks as though he has discovered one answer to the real estate crunch: more...
...initial demographic study in January measured the percentage of residents participating in a varsity sport, Kirkland the leader, led with 45 9 percent, with next door neighbor Eliot close behind. This time around, Whitla relied on a little known admissions office statistic the rating the office gives to prospective applicants evaluating the likelihood that they will participate in varsity sports...
...woodshop, the ex-President showed off his work with his own restrained style of joy. One piece was a coffee table that Carter had made out of some walnut he had got by trading a book with a neighbor; another was a bedside table made from a purplish slab of wood that came from the Congo. A huge hickory tree from the backyard had provided him with his own supply of local wood. He split the felled tree with a wedge, then used a heavy blade called a froe to cut them into the proper lengths for furniture. Pieces...
...Defense League. Dershowitz eventually got his client off and began taking on other legal lepers. Now he laughingly asks, "Who else do you know who gets Christmas cards from murderers, rapists and residents of death row?" Not everyone is amused, not even in his own Boro Park, where one neighbor recently described him as "the one who used to be the troublemaker, and now is the lawyer for the troublemakers...
ALVY SINGER closes Annie Hall with the greatest exit line since Casablanca When he laments that relationships are painful, messy and usually disastrous, only to be pursued because "we need the eggs," everyone in the theater looks at his neighbor. Those in the company of a romantic interest ruefully admit how likely things are to end badly, those who don't have to share their popcorn wistfully wish they could...