Word: habited
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...else. This six-hour mini-series gets away with it because it's adapted from a true story; because Charles S. Dutton directs it with grace; because T.K. Carter and Khandi Alexander are revelations as a middle-class couple brought low by, and struggling to rise above, their drug habit. The dialogue is at times stagey, and the characters are defined almost entirely through their addictions. But for this last, reality has to share the blame...
...which might be tolerable if such laxity in style were not coeval with loose thinking. But for some reason--perhaps its informality, perhaps the ease with which type is edited (making drafts unnecessary)--e-mail seems to demand less refined thinking. Frequent letter writing, on the other hand, makes habit of formal writing and thinking alike...
Last week a jury ordered Philip Morris and R.J. Reynolds to pay $20 million in punitive damages to a dying ex-smoker who picked up the habit after the Surgeon General's warning began appearing on cigarette packs in the late 1960s. Warning or not, the juries have primed the pump and Big Tobacco is going to pay. The tobacco companies are already paying $246 million in an out-of-court settlement to the states for the health costs of smoking--with this ruling, any smoker could feel the legal costs are worth the chance at a day in court...
...Stage Two, you recognize that this new country, like any other, has its downside. There's the ketchup candy, for instance. Also, Spaniards have a bothersome habit of throwing fruit at you from their window and yelling "Yankee go home, muddafudda!" (really). But in Stage Two you don't get angry, you get concerned. What about American imperialism has angered these vulgar, fruit-throwing Spaniards? Are they mad we stole Antonio Banderas? Seriously, if you want him back, we can have him packed and shipped in under an hour...
...program that helps you stop smoking, the IRS lets you deduct the cost. Smoking-cessation programs can range from $30 to $350 depending on the treatment. But if you choose a patch or nicotine gum, you're outta luck--no deductions for over-the-counter meds. Kicked the habit in the past three years? You could still get a refund by filing an amended tax return...