Word: habit
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...result, full randomization looks more and more desirable. It solves the Heirs-versus-Randoms issue in Adams House by frustrating the growth of opposing cultures within each house. And it eliminates the self segregation that non-ordered choice--and ordered choice, a bad old habit of which the College rid itself three years ago--encourages...
...CATCH IN TAMMY WYNETTE'S VOICE sounds like a heartbreak that's become a habit. For 25 years, Wynette has been one of country music's best habits. The 67-song CD set Tears of Fire offers a lot of fine down-home hits (Stand By Your Man, We're Not the Jet Set) and a little social history, so often does Wynette sing about the soul-scarred Southern woman. Some of her best songs (I Don't Wanna Play House, D-I-V-O-R-C-E, Dear Daughters) are bedtime stories for a child from a ravaged home...
However, Miller's habit of blending comedy with tragedy was often oddly unsettling. He crooned about his teenage boyfriend over the sway of ironically wailing violins. Or he waxed philosophical about the fact that "our bodies are only good for death"--stopping every ten seconds to adjure his penis in a harsh whisper to "get hard" and provide him with the grand final be that he needed...
...local eateries--adopted for their convenient location and returned to time and again out of force of habit--become sentimental favorites, staked out by student groups as their own turf...
...habit to speak of Matisse's "assurance," his Apollonian, almost inhuman, balance. Yet this simple idea does not survive the evidence of this show. The deeper one looks, the more doubt and qualification one finds. It was far from Matisse's mind to impose an artificial certainty on the flux of vision. The resolution of his great 1914 still life, Goldfish and Palette, is provisional; on either side of the black central column things teeter and lean; even the curlicues of the black iron balcony seem held in a fragile equilibrium...