Word: neighbors
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...determined attempt to assert who came out ahead. Some will find the U.S. acceptance of the jargon of the Bandung Conference on peaceful coexistence distasteful. On the other hand. China assented to the proposition that "seeking hegemony in the Asian-Pacific region" is conduct unbecoming a well-behaved neighbor, a precept several of its neighbors would dearly love to see put into practice. As Henry Kissinger pointed out later, such talk about hegemony in a joint communique with China would have seemed very unlikely just six months...
...Howard Hughes-Clifford Irving investigation continued to twist like a whodunit written on a helix, the editors realized that a cover story on Irving was in the offing. Which artist should paint de portrait? The ideally ironic choice seemed to be Elmyr de Hory, Irving's neighbor on the Balearic isle of Ibiza and the subject of Fake!, Irving's book about a master art forger...
Unless they can relate such issues as the Viet Nam War, President Nixon's celebrated "journeys for peace" and the environment to their own lives, Floridians place these matters far below such more personal concerns as rising taxes, the high cost of living, the neighbor who seems to be living high on welfare and the demands that their children be bused to more distant schools. Statewide, Kane finds that busing, in fact, dominates all other issues...
...ample opportunity to display his talents as a small-time conman and junkie. Captured by a bunch of crooks he has doublecrossed, and locked into a lady's bedroom without his clothes, he dons a pink nightgown and exposes himself through the window to a watching neighbor below, hoping she'll call the police. As he jumps up and down in anguish, opening the nightgown and desperately trying to show enough of himself over the windowsill, the girl slowly starts to strip...
...because Mamma and Papa talked to him so much"), on a Pilgrim's Progress as it might have been rewritten by Horatio Alger. All the hagiographic basics are there: his mother's vow to give her child to God in return for the healing of a neighbor's child; his bloody bout with tuberculosis and miraculous cure (God to Oral: "Son, I am going to heal you, and you are going to take the message of my healing power to your generation"); his three-part challenge to God (asking for a crowd, money...