Word: habited
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...around in a long while. Set in San Francisco's trans-gendered, drug addict underground, its smart writing and stylish graphics move fluidly between grit and transcendence. Divided into four short stories rather than a single narrative, each chapter features Catherine Gore, a lanky, androgynous lesbian with a drug habit and a talent for observation and story telling. The first chapter typifies the book's consistently refreshing unconventionality. The story details Catherine's brief but obsessive love affair with Chloe, a beautiful, blonde male to female transsexual. They bond over a mutual disillusionment with their peers - lesbians involved in "unbelievably...
...Part of what we do is bring ideas that aren’t run of the mill, that aren’t typical,” she said. “It becomes a kind of habit of mind...
...we’re really all that different. Is it logical for one middle-class, private-school-educated, suburban, Philadelphia rower to hate another simply because one goes to a school in Cambridge and one goes to a school in Philadelphia? No. But people have a nasty habit of throwing rationality to the wind, especially when Harvard is involved...
...Wilson hit, but a number from ?42nd Street,? the 1981 Broadway show revived three years ago and still running, and, in deepest antiquity, the 1933 Warner Bros. musical. And not the famous title song or the semi-standards ?Shuffle Off to Buffalo? or ?You?re Getting to Be a Habit With Me,? but the uptempo flirtation tune ?Young and Healthy.? Diana, a chunky bundle of brio, sang the Dick Powell role. Allie, a slim sylph, had the Ruby Keeler-Peggy Sawyer part...
...generation, Bernadette must have been struck by the elegance of this tomboy with wide brown eyes. But for her, the story of Sister Luke's rebellious nun, who nurses lepers in the Congo, falls in love with Peter Finch and in the film's final scene, hangs up her habit to face the light of day, must have had added resonance: that year Bernadette entered the cloistered world of the Carmelite sisters of Dulwich Hill. In the 45 years since, she's seen no movies, and no more Audrey Hepburn - no Holly Golightly in Breakfast at Tiffany's or Natasha...