Word: habit
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Salkian spirit of self-experimentation, I have long applied this technique to my addictions. The first time, admittedly, the experiment was unintentional. In college I was a big coffee drinker. Working on the McGill Daily, I once stayed up all night writing and rewriting editorials (one habit of which I later purged myself with great ease), drinking cup after cup of coffee along the way. By dawn I had consumed at least a dozen and was sick as a dog. That was 25 years ago. I have not touched a cup since...
...home." But this explanation hardly seems sufficient for all shorts freaks, some of whom hail from less tropical climates. Another possible motivation for this bizarre behavior might be to show off their sexy legs, though Tim Griffiths recounts a female friend in high school confronting him about his shorts habit, asking, "Is it because you think your legs are really good looking? Because they...
Shorts wearers themselves do make some efforts to explain their lifestyles. Dave Goldberg says, "the real reason is just inertia. All summer and fall I get up and put on shorts, it's real habit-forming." Others point to the many advantages of shorts: comfort, ease of removal and, according to Tim Griffiths, the ability to flee attackers more effectively than pants wearers...
Maraniss lets the story linger long, perhaps too long, over Clinton's days as a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford. But it is an important stop. There we see Clinton's boyhood habit of telling people what they want to hear turn into a propensity for deceit and lies. Clinton seems to struggle genuinely with his conscience, but ultimately he ducks a choice. He is drafted, but pulls strings to get into a ROTC program in which he has no intention of actually participating...
Fifteen Minutes caught Bellson's New York-based quintet at New York City's legendary Blue Note on January 28. Bellson, who followed in Krupa's footsteps along with Buddy Rich and Sam Woodyard, revolutionized jazz drumming by becoming a bandleader himself. Bellson also made a habit of taking the reins when playing in small groups...