Word: habit
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Director and writer Alexander Rosler, who based the film on his own childhood experiences, shares Mendel's point of view with the audience by revealing only what Mendel knows. Conversations stop abruptly for the camera as well as for Mendel. Mendel has a habit of shouting "Click!" as he gazes on a place for the last time; Rosler prolongs his shot of the scene as Mendel makes his mental picture...
...good at being impulsive," Kate says. She needs time to spin her webs around those, like Maude and Mark, who would entrap her. She is good at duplicity--so good it becomes a habit. Thus she works it on Merton, the sort of weak, handsome man strong women are attracted to and know how to use. Millie, with one of those wilting diseases peculiar to heroines of romantic novels, has no such guile. Imperiled innocence is her lure for Merton, and it may draw him beyond the reach of Kate's conniving...
...Johnson thus continues his habit of arriving, winning, and parting under fire. But he will not long go unemployed; both Toronto and the expansion Tampa Bay Devil Rays are said to be interested. After all, he did win the damn award...
...PATCH, NO CATCH Taking a pill may help smokers kick the habit. In a study, 25% of those who used the antidepressant bupropion quit smoking for at least a year--about the same success rate as the patch...
...reject what modern science has to say about reading--which is that readers do attend to every letter, that phonics taught in isolation is effective and that poor readers rely on context, while good readers do not. Thus by encouraging guessing, a whole-language teacher is reinforcing a bad habit. As for the idea that written language is acquired as naturally as oral language, that has been dismissed on empirical grounds, as well as by common sense. As Lyon says, "If reading were as natural as speaking, wouldn't all cultures have written language, and would so many people...