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...free in the center of our platter. Not to say that that was a bad thing; although a bit bland, both of them were entirely unoffensive, until one of our guests stopped using the bread and started picking at it with his fingers. All of us took that habit up eventually, because the bread was so sour it made our stomachs churn. And then there was the lamb... we think. It was so unremarkable, it didn't even taste like lamb, and we couldn't even identify it until we remembered what we had ordered. The worst offender...
While an instructor at Howard, she married a Jamaican architect named Harold Morrison and had two sons. As the marriage turned sour, Morrison began to seek privacy and consolation in writing, like, as she later remarked, "someone with a dirty habit." One of the stories she produced, about a little black girl who prays to be given blue eyes so that others will find her beautiful, later inspired her first novel...
...really hanging in there: "I'm just like abad habit, I'm still here. Who woulda believed, 10years ago when I was fighting Rocky, that they'dbe thinking about doing a comic book of me. I letthe chips fall where they may. I don't worry aboutwhat society says, oh Mr. T series this and that.I'm making money already." His latest role, as thebearded lady in "Freaked," may not be optimal, buthe's taking it in stride: "People will say, "Mr.T's wearing a dress, I knew he was a sissy!' Butas long as they `re talking, that...
...Once you get into the habit of getting things done," Winters says, "It's hard to stop One the council, I'd have more authority to get things done more effectively...
Occasionally, one gets questions about the cereal habit. It's true that the average adult does not eat small pieces of sugar grain in milk three meals a day. (Hence the need for those stupid Tony the Tiger commercials). But, for me at least, safety is a concern that overrides any roommate stares: there is no surer way to avoid Mystery Meat or any permutation thereof...