Word: habited
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...joint villain is the Hubbard clan, a trio of plunderers in magnolia land. The family trade is cotton; its god is greed. The younger brother, Oscar (Joe Ponazecki), is a man with a sycophantic spirit and an ugly habit of slapping his genteel, alcohol ic wife Birdie (Maureen Stapleton). The older brother, Ben (Anthony Zerbe), is a cigar-chomping Machiavelli. As their sister Regina, Taylor salivates in her lust for wealth, power and position...
When it is not merely a bad habit acquired in childhood, the preppy look betrays a pitiable lack of self-confidence. Faith in a designer's name is a poor substitute for belief in one's force of character. An alligator shirt or a madras skirt is the equivalent of a sandwich sign advertising the wearer's shallowness and insecurity. It doesn't take a firm grasp of existential dialectics to see the intimate link between L.L. Bean and Nothingness. Preppy clothes cloak an inner void...
...listening to David Bowie tapes in the labyrinthine subway corridors of the station near Berlin's zoo or shooting up heroin in its seedy lavatories, she totters on high heels along the Kurfürstenstrasse, a pitiful tart in search of cash to support her habit. What has made her the subject of such intense interest and controversy is that she really existed...
...Europe's biggest market for illegal heroin, and an alarming number of the estimated 50,000 hard-drug users are still in their teens. By the time the real Christiane F. was approached by two reporters from the West German weekly Stern, she had successfully shaken her heroin habit, but the story she told them of drug abuse among young people shocked a nation ignorant of the dimensions of the problem. A book based on her Stern disclosures became an instant bestseller in 1979 and has sold 1.3 million copies so far. What has astonished book publishers-and concerned...
...Harvard, you have two or three hours to spend on a case that might deal with the bankruptcy of a corporation," Almon recalls, "so you get into the habit of thinking that you can deal with any problem quickly. In real life you don't have the luxury of skipping over details. That can result in horrible mistakes...