Word: habit
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...budget is a little crazo too, up $4 million from the original $20 million because of the stunts and Spielberg's quest for perfection. "The most expensive habit in the world is celluloid, not heroin, and I need a fix every few years," says Spielberg, 31, who neither smokes, drinks, nor touches all those drugs that are served like hors d'oeuvres at Hollywood parties. But then Spielberg and his live-in companion for the past three years, Actress Amy Irving (Voices), hardly ever go out. Most of the time they stay in their house in Coldwater Canyon...
...Habit of Being: Letters of Flannery O'Connor, edited by Sally Fitzgerald...
...interviewer who has dropped out to do some soul searching in Southern California; a woman writer with the disconcerting habit of throwing her voice at crucial emotional moments; a dim-bulb movie star and her producer paramour, who keeps his wealth in a sock drawer and begins too many sentences with the phrase entre nous: these are the featured players in New York Disc Jockey Jonathan Schwartz's resonant first novel. At a glance, it may seem another tour of Joan Didion's empty existential horizons -damaged people failing to communicate in a dry land. But Schwartz...
...insensitivity, the kinds of issues that she has tried to bring to general attention in her talks and lectures, remain compelling. Perhaps she does not present the most elegantly constructed analyses, but she has the essential element of conviction that saves her rhetoric. She has, however, fallen into the habit of slinging too many canned pronouncements about complicated matters...
NONFICTION: A Distant Mirror, Barbara W. Tuchman ∙Albert Camus, Herbert R. Lottman American Singers, Whitney Balliett In Memory Yet Green, Isaac Asimov The Habit of Being: Letters of Flannery O'Connor, edited by Sally Fitzgerald ∙Thoughts in a Dry Season, Gerald Brenan ∙To Build a Castle-My Life as a Dissenter, Vladimir Bukovsky...