Word: habitation
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...hours, but it can be difficult to watch when it tries to strike a serious note. A film festival audience favorite, the movie was originally titled “Shut Up and Sing” in reference to the characters’ annoying habit of yelling “shut up!” at the drop of a hat. Maybe some people who graduated from college in the early ’90s really do scream at each other for fun, but the yelling happens to grate on my nerves. The new title certainly isn’t much...
...negroes" from Angola. Our original sin was not very original--Spain and Portugal had already brought 200,000 African slaves to the Americas--and the colony was slow to exploit the practice. Slaves did not outnumber indentured servants in Virginia until the 1670s. Once acquired, however, the habit of bondage would prove addicting--economic and social nicotine...
...aristocratic human who has the good fortune to be raised and trained up by the elves into a bad-ass swordsman. Túrin is good-hearted but flawed: he's irascible, quick to anger and quick to act on his anger - he has a bad habit of killing people before he quite realizes what he's doing (though he's always remorseful afterwards). "Túrin was slow to forget injustice or mockery," Tolkien writes, "and he could be sudden and fierce. Yet he was quick to pity, and the hurts or sadness of living things might move...
Audiences, especially kids, are taking notice. Two recent studies, published in Lancet and Pediatrics, have found that among children as young as 10, those exposed to the most screen smoking are up to 2.7 times as likely as others to pick up the habit. Worse, it's the ones from nonsmoking homes who are hit the hardest, perhaps because they are spared the dirty ashtrays and musty drapes that make real-world smoking a lot less appealing than the sanitized cinematic version...
...dozen health groups including the American Medical Association are calling for reduction of smoking in movies and on TV, and 41 state attorneys general have signed a letter seeking public-service ads at the beginning of any DVD that includes smoking. Like smokers, studios may conclude that quitting the habit is not just a lot healthier but also a lot smarter...