Word: habitable
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...decision by four well-to-do-men that bizarre death on the weekend is somehow worth more than a less frantic hedonism continued over a protracted period. The decision to die cannot be divorced from the work and family lives of these men. Living is not such an easy habit to break, even for a good meal...
...with some of his ministers and in 1971 summarily fired his powerful Vice President, Ali Sabry. Sadat also faced rising resentment from his officers over the presence of Soviet advisers. Moreover, as Arab frustration grew over the unresolved "no war, no peace" situation with Israel, Sadat had an unfortunate habit of promising action but never delivering. His "year of decision," 1971, passed uneventfully. "We do not shrink from any sacrifice," he declared last year when he shuffled his Cabinet and made himself Premier as well as President, but nothing happened. "The battle is now inevitable," he promised last spring...
...done to their observance of Ramadan-the holy month of Islam during which devout Moslems abstain totally from food, drink and tobacco from sunrise to sunset. From Cairo, TIME Correspondent Wilton Wynn reports that "normally, Ramadan nights are more lively than the days. The Cairene's habit is to have an enormous 'lunch' at about 2 a.m. and go out on the town celebrating. But now, because of the war, restaurants shut at 11 p.m., as do most cabarets...
Apparently, Cosell responds to boredom or uneasiness by pressuring someone nearby with this kind of needling. He is wrong to confuse this habit with a sense of humor...
...medieval religious art. Like many another image in Fantasia, it is also filtered through Art Deco, the popular style of the '30s. Using Deco idioms was as far as Disney ever went in the direction of classicism, but it would be shaky to suppose he picked up the habit in a museum. By the same token, he may never have heard of Gustav Klimt or even Monet, but another section of Fantasia, the Pastoral, now looks like a shotgun marriage of the two, with Disney's plump, nippleless nymphs and plow-horse centaurs cavorting around the iridescent blooms...