Word: habits
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...also eats dinner with them as often as possible. On Sundays he takes them to a guitar Mass at Holy Trinity Church in Georgetown, and he often scans the ads for family movies. When he is away, Kennedy calls home to talk to the children every night, a habit designed in part to assure them of his safety. Last year at Halloween, he startled his neighbors by joining the kids for the trick-or-treat rounds, dressed in a sheet...
...precision the way that people actually stand when they are not observed-along with the scoured blue of the Atlantic sky and the distant, promenading couples. It is like an amateur snapshot. Vuillard was, in fact, one of the first artists to use a Kodak systematically. It was his habit to set up his camera and focus it while talking to friends, and startle them with a cry of "One moment, please!" and a click. Much of the angling and perspective in Vuillard's rooms seems to correspond to the distortions of an old-fashioned lens. His pictures...
...premise, at least, is intriguingly feasible. Dave Garland (Clint Eastwood) is a late-night California disk jockey who coos cut-rate Oriental wisdom be tween sides of soft jazz. One of his female listeners is in the habit of calling in and requesting, in alluring tones, "Play Misty for me." Garland complies. Lat er, by no accident, they meet...
...Motorhead Sherwood, an actor who appears to suffer from some brain malfunction, and a vacuum cleaner that isn't really a vacuum cleaner but is actually some guy dressed up like a vacuum cleaner who never talks but merely inhales. There is another guy who wears a nun's habit and is supposed to represent a groupie who has taken an overdose of barbiturates and ascends to Heaven. There is Jeff the bass player who drinks a vile foamy liquid, freaks out, steals his entire motel room, packs it in an empty beer bottle, and deserts the group in order...
...demand for young, black, unskilled labor in St. Louis during the late Forties was no greater than it is now throughout urban America where young blacks have the highest rate of unemployment. So, for Bradford, the need to supply his habit demanded crime...