Word: accustomedness
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The applause is not the kind the Celtics get, however. The U.S. is accustomed to winning the archery gold-John Williams, who coaches the U.S. team, won in 1972-but the fact is that archery is a "that's nice" sport. The shooters look nice in their dress whites...
Deals, deals, deals. Studio people still "give good phone" here, still "take a meeting." On San Vicente Boulevard there is a shop called A Definite Maybe Boutique. That is studio talk. A producer and scriptwriter who has had some success calls it "the coldest town in the country, run by...
When Ferraro is away from their two-story, Tudor-style home in Queens, she telephones her husband several times each day. He accompanies the Congresswoman at public functions in her congressional district. His rationale: "People would wonder if she were there alone." Accustomed by now to most political rituals, he...
In Israel, all those contrasts and conflicts were for decades embodied by the Sephardim*- (who flocked to Israel from southern European countries, North Africa and the Middle East) and the Ashkenazim (who came from Central and Eastern Europe). For 30 years the more cosmopolitan Ashkenazim have been at the top...
Culturally, too, the Sephardim often feel more at home in an Arabic environment. But the Middle Eastern Jews who arrived in Israel 36 years ago found that Jews from Poland, Germany and the Soviet Union had created a land in the image of their old European homes. Speaking the Judeo...