Word: habit
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Kraft Music Hall (NBC, 9-10 p.m.).-Dave King, a British pantomimist with style, wit, and a habit of breaking into agreeable song, has taken over for Milton Berle...
...days a week, he often goes home to a brace of martinis and dinner, then straight to bed. He smokes sporadically, munches Life Savers to cut down on the weed, carries his head at a peculiar starboard tilt (he says he picked up the habit while trying to dodge low-slung overheads aboard ship). Gates has not had a full-fledged vacation in six years, manages only a few hours at a time for golfing (mid-80s), boating with his wife Anne and their three daughters, romping with his four grandchildren. Says a longtime banker friend from Philadelphia: "Tom Gates...
...only three hospitals for addicts in the U.S.: two federal, at Lexington, Ky., and Fort Worth, and one run by New York City for victims under 21. †Main reason most addicts turn to crime is that illicit drugs cost several hundred times the legal price, and the "habit" may set them back $500 a week...
...eclecticism of Beardsley and his follower, Charles Ricketts, can be seen to derive from the Art Nouveau habit of overstatement and slickness. Likewise, the Nouveau penchant for vegetal forms led to the functionless fantasies in glass of Louis Tiffany, America's gifted designer. The most interesting forms of his stylized works, such as the flower vase in this show, are impractical and, consequently, must be looked at as sculptures in glass. Unfortunately, Tiffany's garish color schemes lessen their value as works...
...refrigerator go? Won't those balconies be dangerous for children? How about privacy, heating and storage? Kiesler does have answers to these questions, though as an all-out idea man he can be impatient with too much insistence on the practical. Comfort is largely a matter of habit, he argues; his house might seem uncomfortable at first, yet not remain so. The curving lips of the interior overhangs make them fairly safe for children. There is visual privacy, though not the privacy that doors afford. The kitchen is to be built into one of the supporting pillars beneath. Radiant...