Word: habitations
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...scholarship to Georgetown and his life are at stake. Furthermore, The Girl Next Door features an ending that is not only predictable, but absurdly assumes that the career choice of adult film star is an obstacle that needs to be overcome like an illness or a bad drug habit. The mold of the standard high school film is certainly broken with The Girl Next Door, but in this particular instance, the result is merely soft-core blandness...
...frightfull'st grinner/ Be the winner") and the various cosmetic condiments that have accompanied the smile over the years, from the 18th century English vogue for wearing mouse-skin eyebrows, to the Japanese tooth-blackening practice of ohaguro. How the author manages to connect the 16th century European habit of dog turd-throwing, Dutch painting's depiction of the chicken groper, and a potted history of the sheela-na-gig (the wanton witch engraved in medieval churches across England, Ireland and Wales) is part of the book's but-I-digress charm...
...Most of the leading characters are based on real people.) To Swearengen, the formula is simple: former lawman + gunfighter = nascent police force, especially when the two stumble on a massacre-robbery perpetrated by "road agents" working for him. It seems, though, that Bullock just wants to kick his law habit and make a dollar, and Hickok, to drink and gamble his way into oblivion. "Hickok was acutely aware of his time having passed," says Carradine. "He had outlived his usefulness." Throw in abused prostitute Trixie (Paula Malcomson); Alma Garret, a laudanum-addicted lady from back East (Molly Parker...
...past, cast a pitying eye on the Quadlings who have insisted upon a Quad-River rivalry—feeling that the River’s patent superiority spoke for itself—but I have been studying in Hilles Library lately. This is the sort of peculiar habit you admit to with an abashed smile, like an affection for listening to ABBA records while binging on Sun Chips and Fresca. In a nostalgic age, it is the rare indulgence that is passé without having quite acquired the mass following to be retro...
...contrast to the Crimson’s duo dominance was the team’s only conspicuous weakness, a dangerous mid-meet hiccupping pattern. Though deep reserves have repeatedly propelled the Crimson to victory, the squad has made a habit of winning the doubles point, only to fall behind in singles play...