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...Minter's fiercely protective mother and manager, Charlotte Shelby, who happened to own a .38. So was the houseman, Henry Peavey, who had recently been arrested for soliciting young boys. Or was it some drug dealer angered by Taylor's efforts to get Normand off her cocaine habit? Or one of several lunatics who made false confessions...
...grandstand, and he "stopped raisin' hell" and turned to police work. Gayle Lynne said, "What're you gonna do? Save the world?" And he said, "No. If I can just save one person, it'll be worth it." He also gave up drinking and kicked his cigar habit...
...long and loyally in the campaigns of Ronald Reagan and California's popular Republican Governor George Deukmejian. Antonovich has some novel ideas (illegal Mexican immigrants should be stopped at the border by armed U.S. soldiers; gay men should combat the AIDS epidemic by going straight). He also has a habit of answering specific questions with tiresome civics lessons that begin, "Under our Constitution, there are three branches of Government...
...much more antagonistic are the Cambridge punks, who look like refugees from an Hieronymus Bosch painting, hanging around in the area once occupied by the aforementioned shell-hole. Even their habit of spray painting slogans like "Eat the Unemployed" and "Please kerb your God" on all available non-moving surfaces would be all right, if it were not for one unfortunate trait...
Certain members of their ranks, perhaps eager to prove their manhood in some heavy-metal courtship ritual, have the habit of inviting members of the Harvard community, myself included, to relatively unarmed combat. Seldom a week goes by without some Twisted Sister fan sneering "Lookin' sweet, babycakes," at me, or trying to slamdance me off of the sidewalk...