Word: habitation
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...given Habit...
Lauren M. Winkler '01, who quit smoking last month, says smoking was a social habit that helped her meet people this past fall, the first semester of her first year...
What a cast of characters: a White House intern suspected of having a relationship with the President and quoted as saying she has lied her entire life; an ex-White House secretary who makes a habit of "befriending" women who claim to have had intimate encounters with the President; a political spy turned tell-all literary agent who counsels the secretary; and a special prosecutor who arranges for undercover taping of the intern's private conversations about her sex life because they might have some bearing on his investigations. Is there anyone with integrity in Washington? JEANNIE WURZ Bern, Switzerland...
Just opened off-Broadway in a strong if not ideally cast production, Shopping revolves around three young London roommates. Mark (Philip Seymour Hoffman) leaves for a detox center in an effort to kick his heroin habit. Robbie and Lulu (Justin Theroux and Jennifer Dundas Lowe) keep busy by dealing drugs for a scuzzy TV producer (Matthew Sussman). They reunite when Mark brings home a young hustler (Torquil Campbell), who takes part in a sordid bout of fantasy game playing that makes Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? look like Scrabble...
...course not. In fact, it is precisely these "flaws" as the critics call them (such as her habit of wigging out over small things, or complaining about her hair to Billy, her ex) that endear her to us. In fact, it is these small idiosyncrasies that make us identify with her and compel us to keep coming back for more. Without them, she might very well stand as a more ideal role model for young women. But would we identify or empathize with a paragon of social and professional virtue and excellence? No, probably...