Word: habited
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...fabulous performance by Mintz-Plasse, a first-time movie actor with a beguiling, almost cunning dorkishness. The comedy comes from Fogell's belief that he is somehow cool, though he must have been told the opposite three times a day since he was in pre-school. Apatow has a habit of promoting his featured losers to starring roles. Rogen was one of Steve Carell's friend-torturers in The 40-Year-Old Virgin before getting Knocked Up, and Hill was a Rogen buddy in that film before Superbad. From this natural selection of the lamest, Mintz-Plasse has proved...
Maybe because we idealize bright summer more than any other season, its darkness takes us by surprise, like finding a spider in your sandal. Savoring summer is a habit tattooed from childhood, along with sunburn scars and callused heels and memories of original sins, a first beer smuggled behind the grandstand, cigarettes sneaked in the woods, curfews broken because it's too hot to sleep. The flip side of summer freedom is anarchy, the structures of school and work melted into casual Fridays and long weekends spent playing on grass now baked to beige by drought...
...biggest hurdle is getting customers in the door. "People are creatures of habit. They grew up and saw their parents going to check cashers, and they continue their parents' habits," says Ignacio Valenzuela, who runs Union Bank's alternative financial services. Another problem is perception. "Many people don't trust banks," says Hank Shyne, director of the Financial Service Centers of America, a trade group representing the check-cashing industry. "They have that fear of being overdrawn. They are much more comfortable dealing with cash," he says...
...retrospective analysis of past plots, conducted with meticulous attention to detail. It is not the vague warnings of imminent doom we have heard from the federal government in the past. But the local CBS affiliate in New York City described it as "chilling," perhaps out of habit...
...wear the Capri pants that you have to constantly pull out of your rear? Why not shorts? -Sara Norm, Chicago [Laughs.] It's not the fault of the clothes. It's a habit that I picked up when I was competing when I was young. I am trying to break the habit, but it's not easy...