Word: habitability
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...when the macrobiotic wave was still gaining momentum, especially in its midwestern stronghold of Ann Arbor. The stories that had been appearing frequently in the newspapers, of people starving on the diet, of dying from salt poisoning and malnutrition, would hardly signal caution to Kimberly, who had a habit of extremism. And soon enough, macrobiotics had become her new gospel. Following Regime No. 7, no more than grain and tea, she cut out all drugs and stopped having sex. She stopped talking and living everything but the new found religion of macrobiotics. She would, of course, located in the system...
...score is close late in the game, and it very well may be, it is possible Sanders will pressure the Penn team. "At that particular time we have a habit of trying anything," Sanders said yesterday...
Instead of being a nostalgic salute to old Hollywood detective movies, The Long Goodbye tosses the tradition's cliches out the window. Altman waves goodbye to the genre's habit of emphasizing plot instead of characterization. And Elliott Gould, as a Marlowe for the seventies, is like no detective we've ever seen before: a schlemiel forced to live up to his fantasies about justice and derring-do. He is a contemporary Rip Van Winkle, walking around modern-day Los Angeles with ideals and morals from a different...
...running an open shop, which is remarkable in an Administration noted for its secrecy. By now, Simon must have set some sort of record for appearances on TV. He comes across to some watchers as self-assured and purposeful, to others as arrogant. Newsmen are delighted by his habit of returning their calls, no matter how late he has been working, and insisting that his staff do the same. Right at the start, Simon promised to meet with newsmen every Thursday to answer any questions that they might ask. He has rigorously kept the pledge, to the horror of some...
...organist at Manhattan's Riverside Church. In those days, his most conspicuous eccentricity was a fondness for walking the streets in a toreador's black cape-that and a rapidly emerging, unorthodox approach to Bach. "The word toccata means to touch, "he asserts, lapsing into his habit of speaking in italics. "My Bach is a redblooded, gutsy he-man Bach. His mind is universal; his heart is overwhelming, and the spirit that rides over the entire creativity of this enormous man is transcendental...