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Dates: during 1990-1999
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While an instructor at Howard, she married a Jamaican architect named Harold Morrison and had two sons. As the marriage turned sour, Morrison began to seek privacy and consolation in writing, like, as she later remarked, "someone with a dirty habit." One of the stories she produced, about a little black girl who prays to be given blue eyes so that others will find her beautiful, later inspired her first novel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Rooms of Their Own | 10/18/1993 | See Source »

...really hanging in there: "I'm just like abad habit, I'm still here. Who woulda believed, 10years ago when I was fighting Rocky, that they'dbe thinking about doing a comic book of me. I letthe chips fall where they may. I don't worry aboutwhat society says, oh Mr. T series this and that.I'm making money already." His latest role, as thebearded lady in "Freaked," may not be optimal, buthe's taking it in stride: "People will say, "Mr.T's wearing a dress, I knew he was a sissy!' Butas long as they `re talking, that...

Author: By Daniel J. Sharfstein, | Title: Boston T Party | 10/7/1993 | See Source »

...Once you get into the habit of getting things done," Winters says, "It's hard to stop One the council, I'd have more authority to get things done more effectively...

Author: By Sarah E. Scrogin, | Title: Non-Incumbent Council Candidates Plan Big Changes | 10/6/1993 | See Source »

Occasionally, one gets questions about the cereal habit. It's true that the average adult does not eat small pieces of sugar grain in milk three meals a day. (Hence the need for those stupid Tony the Tiger commercials). But, for me at least, safety is a concern that overrides any roommate stares: there is no surer way to avoid Mystery Meat or any permutation thereof...

Author: By Anna D. Wilde, | Title: Cereal Saga | 9/23/1993 | See Source »

...reasons for such an inconsistency are clear, such as the nasty habit of Peruvian drug police to end up in vats of hydrochloric acid in the Upper Huallaga Valley and the tendency of entire Latin American governments to be completely and totally corrupted by drug lords...

Author: By Edward F. Mulkerin iii, | Title: Scapegoats, Sentencing, and LSD | 9/20/1993 | See Source »

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