Verbal fights, bad-neighbors' style, erupt all the time, between the lawyers' teams, as well as between the defense lawyers and the judge.
He points to the growing influence of interest groups that press their agendas at the expense of what used to be a more neighbor-to-neighbor style of campaigning.
Outrageously luxurious multimillion-dollar resorts line the coast with imposing facades, each trying to one-up their neighbor in style and chic.
"The Chapel Hill shooting" — in which a North Carolina man killed three of his Muslim neighbors, execution style — "was called a dispute over a parking space," he said.
Since the wholesale reclamation of the neighborhood began, squalor and its near neighbor, old-style urban sophistication — the chic dive bar, the grimy coffee shop where the actors all hung out and traded news about casting — have been supplanted by the bland comforts of suburban-bred retail chains and restaurants.
Buildings in the complex's interior had no exposure to passing motorists, and the picturesque mall was quickly overshadowed by its neighbors: traditional-style shopping centers as well as the ever-expanding 1.3 million square foot Smith Haven Mall, with more than 140 stores, a quarter of a mile to the west.
But most landmarks have at least one of three unusual qualities: great beauty, unique architecture, or enough neighbors in a similar style to form a historic district.
And while his tight-knit circle of friends in his Libyan hometown, Derna, admired his sense of style, his neighbors treated him with suspicion.
Grand houses like this German-style chalet neighbor with French Mansard mansions, make walking tours (we took a great one with "Tours for Tips") a design feast.
She said she chose Earhart as her idol during her childhood in Nevada, watching her rancher neighbors use taildragger-style Piper Cub planes to tend their herds.
Strikingly unlike its colonial-style neighbors, the octagonal house has a zigzag of triangular windows and a pyramid crowning its flat roof, with an asterisk of steel balls and rebars on top.
