Word: habitant
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...arrangements for the summit shrouded in secrecy. The Russians were not only testing the Czechoslovak leaders to see if they can keep anything secret these days; they were also said to be terrified that hordes of Czechoslovaks might turn out to demonstrate and present petitions, as has become their habit...
...movie directors who get their start on TV are too careless of detail and too enamored of closeups. The old movies shown on TV are truncated, miniaturized versions of the real thing. Growing up on a diet of TV, she is convinced, has put college kids in the habit of walking in and out of movies "as if they were providing their own commercial breaks." And no one who walks out of a good movie is a friend of Pauline Kael...
...corner for five minutes. Exuberantly boyish, he likes to slide down banisters or vault over platform railings to shake hands. He drinks only moderately-wine with meals, an occasional aperitif or whisky. But he despises smoking, which he looks upon, according to one friend, "as the most barbaric habit in the modern world...
...nothing is more arousing than violation of what is most sacred. Thus he has turned out a pair of dresses that are outraging some people (especially the devout) while delighting others. The designs, now being sold through the Paraphernalia boutique chain: a miniskirted version of a nun's habit and an equally abbreviated copy of a belted monk's robe, both with hoods that can be removed to reveal scooped necklines...
...draining bottle after bottle of beer while studying at night. But his relationship with his public is a happy affair, best summed up, perhaps, by Katie Spencer, a 23-year-old piano student from Cincinnati: "There is no other serious musician in the world today who has such a habit-forming effect-who automatically makes addicts. There is something that swings in his Bach." In Richter too, obviously...