Word: habits
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...varsity quintet relapsed into the bad habit of losing Saturday night, by frittering away a nine-point lead in the final three and a half minutes against Cornell at Ithaca. The 67-63 loss was the fourth against three victories for the Crimson in league competition. A three-point play by Big Red captain Lou Jordan with 26 seconds remaining vaulted the home team into the lead...
...fierce group. He pulled a petrified tarantula from his back pocket--"My lucky charm," he explained. "Well, chiefly it's their marital system. You see," he chuckled, "the brother in the Jivarro tribe has with his sister the jus primae noctis, as it were. Enforced incest, a droll habit, you know...
...time at all, Gabin finds himself involved with a rather unsavory assortment of jigolos, impotent husbands, virgin wifes, etc. Unfortunately, the identity of the murder is revealed, by a peculiar habit of knuckle cracking, to the audience near the middle of the film, and much of the suspense is lost, especially in the final scene when Gabin gives the killer-suspect, expertly acted by Jean Desailly, one of the finest and most subtle third degrees in recent film history...
...moviegoer is introduced to the drug rings of Paris and meets a fine assortment of homosexuals, lesbians, junkies, pushers, and the like, all engaged in providing the Paris populace with various forms of habit-forming goodies. The movie is filled with excellent scenes in Paris sub-cellars and dimly lit alleys, and the sex interest is provided by Magali Noel. In all, Razzia is one that can't be missed, and along with Inspector Maigret should provide excellent relief from exams and Westerns...
...Critics. They think Mountbatten both arrogant and vain, criticize his habit of showing up last at meetings, when they say he grabs attention with just that little extra disturbance that the final arrival can create. They complain that Lady Mountbatten, the former Edwina Ashley, is a Socialist and a "do-gooder." By other critics, Mountbatten will always be remembered as the last Viceroy of India, who cooperated with the Labor government in presiding over the breakup of the British Empire...