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...supportiveness of life in the village: in one particularly touching scene, a women called on to testify about Martin's identity lovingly pulls aside his hair to show a scar from a childhood injury. Such intimacy is wondrous, and somewhat disquieting, to urbanities who often don't know their next-door neighbors...
...chief from 1979 to 1981, Russell got a first-hand education in Latin American culture. He was also the writer of some half a dozen cover stories on the Falklands war between Argentina and Britain Russell, born in Canada, was particularly conscious of Mexico's status as a next-door neighbor...
...Higgins, Schwarz and her habitual food-run partner, next-door neighbor Spiro Lampros '85, are prototypes of the Harvard student he sees the most. "You get the people who come in and want to brag to me how much work they have, or how they're never going to do it again. They're procrastinators anyway, and they just don't want to go back...
...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
...impact of the Cairo tragedy softened, so did the language. Both Haig and Egyptian officials on closer examination declared that direct Libyan involvement seemed unlikely. But Libyan jubilation over the killing heightened U.S. perceptions of Egypt's next-door neighbor as an outlaw state and an increasingly bothersome trouble spot. Said a U.S. State Department official: "Libya is beginning to rival the Persian Gulf as the focus of strategic concern in the region. Now that Egypt, the only certain counterweight to Libya, is under a cloud, that concern can only increase...