Word: neighbors
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...only reason to buy land is to keep your neighbor and his noise and nose at a distance, and to keep you off his back in turn. Better ten people with an acre each than ten people sharing ten acres. I would not give you cave-dwelling slaves in New York 5? for the best cluster house ever built. It is a developmental inferno...
...know." When Edwards could not, and, undaunted, went on a minute later to ask the House to proclaim National High Blood Pressure Week, Hechler threw down the gauntlet. Vowing to continue his objections to such resolutions, he noted wryly that National Clean Water Week and National Next-Door Neighbor Day had not brought about any notable improvement in the nation's waterways or in its interpersonal relations. Hechler maintains that declarations such as National Check Your Vehicle Emission Month are plainly absurd. As far as National Family Week is concerned, Hechler snorts: "If the American family depends...
...humanity, Nicky is aided by two good examples--his father and his best friend Bruce, neither of whom are very prominent in the book. The father is full of quiet, sensible advice that bespeaks of an inner wisdom. As for Bruce, after his funeral, his unpopular next door neighbor speaks to his mother: He was always real nice to me, talking to me and listening to me when you don't think he had to. You know how a lot of people sort of like him thought I was just some kind of stupid rag. But he was always real...
...their well is a lethargic one gallon per minute. They were stunned to learn that they would have to shell out $875 for 25 telephone poles and lines to their house. They still have no phone. If they want to make a call, they have to go to a neighbor's home a mile and a half away...
Before Actress Valerie Harper got the part of Rhoda Morgenstern-Mary Tyler Moore's scatty Bronx Jewish neighbor-her agent warned her that she was really not right for the role. Neither Jewish nor a native New Yorker, Valerie had little in common with Rhoda except the soft, lumpy look of a girl with a weakness for cheesecake, cookies, cupcakes and brownies. At rehearsals, Valerie got few laughs in the role...