Word: habitating
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There are plenty of other blacks who share this sentiment, but many are reluctant to voice it for fear of being branded race traitors. Their problem with Farrakhan, like mine, is not only his anti-Semitism but also his habit of selling wolf tickets--archaic black slang for making loud but empty threats. For all his cries about the need for blacks to develop economic independence, for instance, the Nation of Islam's enterprises are less than impressive: small businesses such as restaurants, the Final Call newspaper and security-guard companies that contract with public housing projects and similar institutions...
...That is the nature of the problem," Maddox said. "If you pick up the habit as a teenager, like my father did, then when you get to the age of 60, cigarettes have shortened your life by 10-15 years...
...rationale is that if we make it a little bit harder for teenagers to pick-up smoking as a habit, then we will be able to save a few lives down the road," Maddox said...
Acknowledging this mystery, he refuses to plumb it. As he correctly observes, he always has had enough work to keep him busy and support his habit of "doing what I want in life." This includes a sort of guilt-free materialism--"a millionaire who lives like a billionaire," someone once called him--as he takes a casual, almost childlike, pleasure in his Rolls Royces, the Gulfstream II jet he pilots himself, his mansion in Maine. It also includes marriage to actress Kelly Preston (they have a three-year-old son, Jett) and his embrace of Scientology, which he credits...
...there is a single grating habit that has afflicted young writers of the past decade, it is a tendency to define characters not necessarily by their histories or heartaches or small triumphs but, more economically, as a sum of their pop-cultural tastes. Want to show that someone is vacuous? Put him in Gucci loafers. Want to convey sophistication? Mention a character's love of Godard. Want to suggest that a person has developed unrealistic notions of familial closeness? Have her reminisce about watching The Brady Bunch...