Word: habitating
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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That was the general feel of the second half. Harvard had attacks, some which could have been goals, but so did UNH. And the Crimson also had the bad habit of passing into the middle of nowhere, or not controlling teammates' passes or not marking up properly on defense...
This philosophy of story-telling -- that life stories are more a matter of narrating daily annoyances so as to expose long-festering miseries and lies at the most improper time -- might seem at first grating and pessimistic. Adding Leigh's habit of parking the camera before two or three people whose lives are slowly cracking and splintering might seem a bit much. But in fact, as the scenes are drawn out, we are drawn in. We wish for the characters' sake that the shot would end, if only for the illusion that their sadness might stop for a beat...
...snack bar of the local swimming pool. After high school she worked as a bookkeeper at a car-parts store, but she was fired, she says, because she didn't dress up enough. There was a reason for that. When she did wear a skirt, the boss had a habit of trying to put his hands up under...
...formed of charismatic muscle and countless contradictions. But the romantic profile cut by Irish rebel Michael Collins was not what gripped Liam Neeson so much as one enigmatic habit. "Here he was at one point the most hunted man in Europe," Neeson recounts, his subdued brogue suddenly acquiring crowded-pub volume, "and he stayed out in the open! The British looked for him in the shadows, and there he was wearing steel taps on his shoes, his walk a fierce click--always right there, always in your face...
...Dole, with his reputation for meanness in mind, has thus far shied away from taking the campaign to the door of the Oval Office. His attacks on Clinton have usually come in one of three ways. First is his habit of throwing out little verbal grenades that seemingly come from nowhere and fail to detonate. An example of this was his repetition of the charge that in the debates four years ago, Clinton did not refer to George Bush as "Mr. President." While perhaps this will end up swinging the votes of millions, it probably did little more than cause...