Word: habited
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...mustached man of 50 with the comedy writer's congenital air of melancholy, like a sensitive spaniel; he tends to be the spokesman for the team. Yorkin, 46, who concentrates on being executive producer of "Sanford" at NBC, is a beefy, genial soul with a flushed face and a habit of punctuating his speech with a stabbing thumb that one senses could easily become a fist. Both men, in their divergent styles, bear down hard on their staffs to achieve gloss and precision that have become characteristic or Yorkin and Lear productions...
...film. With Yorkin it is "Start the Revolution Without Me," a 1970 farce about the French Revolution that he produced and directed. With Lear it is "Cold Turkey," a 1971 satire in which he directed his own script about an Iowa town that collectively kicks the smoking habit. Erratic but lively and intriguing, both works were just slightly out of sync with the shifting rhythms of public taste that Yorkin and Lear's TV shows have always caught so uncannily...
...That disregard for the Irish result seemed high-handed, since to be binding, the treaty must be ratified by every E.U. country. Only after that can the union admit new members, which was the treaty's main selling point. But disregarding inconvenient facts has become a habit in Europe, where leaders paint a rosy picture of "irreversible" integration and progress that seems untethered to the messy, awkward reality of existing institutions. Privately, many senior E.U. leaders worry about its "democratic deficit" and institutional sclerosis. Even in public, European Commission President Romano Prodi said, "I wasn't enthusiastic the morning after...
...tend to excerpt it in their authorized video compilations), but it offers the longest glimpse of Southern onscreen. Shaggy and stoned, he dallies with what appears to be a powder as he declares "Cocaine's so expensive that I don't think it's possible to develop a habit." The camera swerves away at two intervals during his sequence - filmmaker Robert Frank tended to do this when his subjects were "indulging...
Hobart and Smith sociology professor H. Wesley Perkins, who conducted the 1996 study, was intrigued by these findings. If teenagers--conformers by temperament--believe drinking is rampant on campus, might they be more inclined to pick up the habit? If on the other hand, they knew that the heavy drinkers were not in the majority, might moderation suddenly seem more attractive...