Word: habited
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...best, by a lot, is Alison H. Rich ’09. She played Samuel Byck, who, in Feburary of 1974, tried to hijack a plane, crash it into the White House, and kill Nixon. Instead, after killing a cop and a pilot, he killed himself.Byck had a habit of taping insane monololgues and mailing them off to people like Leonard Bernstein ’39, and this is how Rich spent her time onstage. Alone, dressed in a Santa suit, scarfing down cokes and cheeseburgers, her charismatic madness caromed all over. She delivered some of the night?...
...could describe as brisk or taut. (Not like all those other brisk, taut 898-page novels.) Bolaño is addicted to digressions, unsolved mysteries and seemingly extraneous details that actually do turn out to be extraneous. He loves trotting out characters we will never encounter a second time--a habit that can be exhausting. And whenever a character falls asleep, the reader should prepare to hear about his dreams...
...Sarah Palin has disappeared from national politics and returned to her governorship in Alaska—at least until the 2012 campaigns get going—and I couldn’t be happier. But while she eases back into the habit of elk hunting and oil drilling, I worry that that the impact of her candidacy on Washington will be a deeply negative...
...thumbnail sketches - whom we will never encounter a second time. If three people spend the night at a hotel, you can count on Bolaño to stop the story cold for 10 pages while he describes each of their dreams. He'll do it gorgeously, but still. This habit can be exhausting. Bolaño is often compared to Jorge Luis Borges, but Borges would never have written 2666. He would have written a short story, an exquisite miniature about a crazy graphomane who talks about writing 2666, and then called...
...NEWS SPOKESMAN, referring to Barkley's notorious gambling habit and his contract as a sports analyst for TNT, which is owned by CNN's parent company...