Word: habitations
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Guiness portrays a combination hero's-brother-in-law-secret-policeman-movie-narrator, who, at the outset, is confronted with Rita Tushingham as an orphaned Russian peasant girl. Miss Tushingham has wisely made a habit of playing lasses of English extraction, but by the mere application of a little makeup and a babushka she become as Russian as Lithuania...
...final testimony for the defense came from Dr. Joseph Pert, director of the special problems unit of the El Cerrite Health Department. Pert explained that while marijuana was habit-forming, it was not harmful...
MARQUIS DE SADE, SELECTED LETTERS, edited by Gilbert Lély. From Vincennes prison and the lunatic asylum at Charenton, the Marquis de Sade wrote to his mother-in-law, his wife and his valet hoping that someone would understand him. He remains an enigma whose habit of acting out monstrous fantasies made his name an eponym for the pain that, to some, gives pleasure...
...Relaxing Habit. Today he devotes part of his time to work on basic theory "trying to figure out what it all means," part to preparation for classwork. He usually teaches radio astronomy or galactic dynamics for three hours a week to Caltech's bright undergraduate and graduate students. This semester, however, normal staff rotation has left him without any classes, enabling him to devote full time to the pursuit of his quasars. Despite the challenges of his job, though, he takes pains never to miss dinner at home. "It is," says Corrie Schmidt, "the only time he really...
...doing difficult creative work," he explains, "I keep at it for only a quarter of an hour or so at a time." In between these sessions, he sometimes watches television with Corrie, easing his busy brain with such shows as The Man From U.N.C.L.E. and Get Smart! Another relaxing habit, imported from Holland like the Schmidts, is an occasional belt or two of volatile Dutch Bols...