Word: habits
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...life-or-death question of how the U.S. would come out in a thermonuclear confrontation with the Soviet Union has a nagging habit of cropping up shortly before Election Day. In 1960, the Democrats' misleading charges of a "missile gap" served to confuse and alarm voters. This year it was Richard Nixon who sought a last-minute advantage. "The present state of our defenses is too close to peril point," Nixon charged in a radio speech, "and our future prospects are in some respects downright alarming. We have a gravely serious security...
...although more American homes have TV than have telephones or bathrooms, and, as the Kerner Commission reported, television is "the universal appliance in the ghetto." Thus, many of the 5% who do not have TV sets are just plain holdouts or former TV addicts who have kicked the habit. Rather than being culturally deprived, many of the nonowners and nonwatchers are-or see themselves as being-culturally superior...
Finian's Rainbow--A heavyhanded, poorly acted film version of the musical, with nothing but the splendid score and the magnificent Fred Astaire to recommend it. The director, Francis Fred Coppola, has a bad habit of chopping people's hands and feet off; stars Petula Clark and Tommy Steele ought to act their age. At the SAXON, Tremont and Stuart...
...Finian's Rainbow -- A heavyhanded, poorly acted film version of the musical, with nothing but the splendid score and the magnificent Fred Astaire to recommend it. The director, Francis Fred Coppola, has a bad habit of chopping people's hands and feet off; stars Petula Clark and Tommy Steele ought to act their age. At the SAXON, Tremont & Stuart...
...quietly amusing: " 'One is bigger than the other.' She cupped her breasts lightly in her hands. 'I suppose that's a habit of his-one side only.' " Kawabata is keenly aware of Japan's historical heritage: "The houses were built in the style of the old regime. No doubt they were there when provincial lords passed down this north-country road." History, sensuality and the land -all interweave to suggest rather than state the uniqueness of his vision...