Word: habitable
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...normally good-humored Bandy, the situation is no laughing matter. "These kids are dreaming," he says. "They don't care about property. This is a phony ghetto. These kids confuse filth with poverty. Filth is a habit, not an economic condition. . . We have gone from minority rights to minority rule. When 20 kids can decide where police can or cannot go, that's sick," he says...
Bloodworth makes it equally clear that even without its foreign devils, Southeast Asia would be no Garden of Eden; its corruption is not an Occidental import brought in by missionaries and gunboats. The native pattern has found "browbeaten peasants" regularly caught between bandits and greedy oligarchies. Revolution, the "habit-forming" coup, has meant exchanging one tyrant for another. "Communism," says Bloodworth, is just "the devil the poor don't yet know...
...relationship between the two was not exactly perfect beforehand, however. Princeton had established a winning habit, outpointing the Crimson, 70-0, in the 1924 and 1925 contests. This clear superiority was apparently a bit much for a Harvard student to put up with, and undergraduates here sought an explanation...
...Navy from 1945 to 1948. By the time he was discharged, he had become a good clarinetist and saxophonist, as well as a good lightweight boxer. He settled in south-central L.A., boxed professionally and played in small jazz clubs for two years. He developed a heroin habit, was caught stealing a record player and thrown in jail. From then on, Sonny bounced back and forth between the state pens at Chino, Folsom and San Quentin, with only brief intervals on the street...
...film is, moreover, shot without intelligence. Its longer scenes are in one-and two-minute takes which, without any sense of dynamic blocking, are the most anti-dramatic way going of shooting a scene for a fiction film. In his faster-cut sections Meyer displays the irritatingly consistent habit of going for the easy payoffs in each situation-images of pinball machines, strange models of beasts, and a large Buddha in a game gallery. Even classy settings like the Pan Am terminal at Kennedy fail to give Meyer's compositions anything you'd want to call style...