Word: neighborly
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...when his father died. He has transfixed success in his mind as the only goal to pursue, and his brother's ideas as the only ones to follow. They are all larger-than-life in his puerile outlook on life. Willy stopped maturing when his father died, and his neighbor and friends keep asking him, "Willy, when are you going to grow...
...dominant and can't set the proper tone. Don't see The Fortune, a forced, slapsticking situational comedy with buddy Warren Beatty, that has Jack looking like Bozo with a paper moustache, and lacks both slap and situation. Don't see The Missouri Breaks, done with next-door neighbor Marlon Brando, one of the most heralded flops to gallop across the silver screen. Nor Going South, with John Belushi, which features numerous shots of our hero's derriere, proving that Nicholson cannot direct Nicholson
...thing Russell seems to have learned from his father is patriotism. "I do believe in the United States," he says," I would definitely fight for our way of life." A call comes from a neighbor in his Holworthy entryway: "How many Vietnames babies did you kill today, Cliff?" He shrugs and laughs. "They like to give me shit sometimes, but on the whole people have been pretty good about it." After a moment he adds, "Everyone around here is really good at making statements--I don't know enough about what happened in Vietnam to make a statement...
...most internal affairs, although quietly insisting that the Communist-dominated Finnish People's Democratic League be included in government coalitions. Kekkonen's supporters insist that he alone was able to work out a relationship with Moscow that kept his country from simply being absorbed by its neighbor. "We have managed our own affairs," Kekkonen once said. "We are satisfied with the result...
What we hear in Tolstoi or Flaubert or Dickens or Proust, wrote Novelist Mary McCarthy, "is the voice of a neighbor relating the latest gossip." Literature coalesces out of base gossip, from Suetonius to Boswell's Journals to Diana Trilling's new account (Mrs. Harris) of the Scarsdale Diet doctor's murder...