Word: habit
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Cambridge area at the Somerville Theater this weekend for a two-week run. To be featured at this sampling extravaganza of animated subjects will be the Canadian award-winning The Crow and the Canary, 25 Ways to Quit Smoking, Bill Plympton's look at how to shed the deadly habit, and award winning graphicist John Lasseter's computer-generated Knick Knack. The Festival of Animation is known internationally as one of the best showcases for the most recent creations in animation. This year's show also highlights The Hill Farm, which took the Grand Prize at the Annecy France Film...
...Cambridge area at the Somerville Theater this weekend for a two-week run. To be featured at this sampling extravaganza of animated subjects will be the Canadian award-winning The Crow and the Canary, 25 Ways to Quit Smoking, Bill Plympton's look at how to shed the deadly habit, and award-winning graphicist John Lasseter's computer-generated Knick Knack. The Festival of Animation is known internationally as one of the best showcases for the most recent creations in animation. This year's show also highlights The Hill Farm, which took the Grand Prize at the Annecy France Film...
...lives of people in cities across the country. The images of the drug war are powerful: a Natick women reports her son and his friends to police for smoking crack in her basement; an 11-year-old girl breaks into houses in South Boston to support her drug habit...
Although reading dust-jacket review clips is a filthy habit which I wouldn't encourage in anyone, it was the back of this book which drew me in. (The front cover is incredibly ugly; don't let it deter you.) One of the best of English travel writers (who has also done some exploring of our America, in Old Glory, a fabulous journey down the Mississippi), Jonathan Raban, describes her earlier work as a "romance with America itself, its infinitely possible geography, its license, sexiness, and violence." The description clearly fits this new novel, and romance is a well-chosen...
...habit-forming pain...