Word: neighbors
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Shaw's view of Moscow includes a watch on his neighbor Soviet Leader Leonid Brezhnev, who has an apartment a block away in the Kutuzovsky Prospekt. Almost every day for the past 1 8 months, Shaw and Brezhnev have passed briefly on their block - Shaw walking to the TIME bureau, Brezhnev speeding to work in his black limousine...
...universality of frustrated efforts at communication, Malamud is not afraid to make use of the simple device of actual notes and letters. Chafing at the bonds of retirement and imminent old age and death, a refined ex-doctor takes to reading the racy billetsdoux addressed to a sexy neighbor who has reawakened his sexual desires and romantic inclinations ("In Retirement"). At last, after all his furtiveness, the doctor works up courage enough to send his Dulcinea a polite little note, loaded with love and longing, only to be showered with the "swirling snow" of the note she tears into shreds...
...Brown, the protagonist of Mark Harris' new novel, is a man who cannot even bring himself to exterminate a neighbor's annoying dog. Yet his mind is a charnel house of potential victims, executed because he thinks nearly everyone around him helped send his mistress's son to death in Viet Nam. Incurably infected by the anger and violence of the past decade, Brown fires off anonymous and threatening letters to presidents, neighbors, even chance acquaintances who displease...
Upset at the spectacle of the San Francisco Giants losing to the Houston Astros, Gerald Bishop, 42, of Redding, Calif., picked up a .30-cal. carbine last week and pumped 17 shots into his television set. Several of the shots went through the wall. A terrified neighbor called police, and they promptly arrived to arrest Bishop. Facing one year in jail for disturbing the peace, Bishop offered only the simplest explanation: "Didn't you ever want to shoot your TV?" Said a police spokesman: "Unusual, isn't it?" Perhaps the police in Redding do not watch much television...
...harsh words about what even a good marriage does to women. Are there any alternatives? Kate wonders. Probably not, Doris Lessing decides, at least for those women who seem to be born (as well as ingrained) with a sense of caring. Kate is intrigued and provoked, though, by a neighbor -either a mutant monster or the Woman of the Future-who seems to have no sense of responsibility and whose children still seem to have turned out well enough...