Word: habits
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...that haunts her. Oates' twelfth novel informs the occult with Freudian insights. Boys change into hounds, men into bears; a man, swallowed by a great flood, returns decades later to be recognized only by his 100-year-old wife. One of the Bellefleurs has a habit of leaving her window open so that her lover, a vampire, can fly in. Dwarfs bowl in the valleys, rivers change course, mountains shrink, and a man walks through a mirror so that, like Orpheus, he can enter the netherworld and find his own version of Eurydice...
Most hit shows live off habit; Dallas arouses demonstrative loyalty. Millions of Dallas T shirts, bumper stickers and buttons are festooning torsos, fenders and lapels. Haifa dozen "J.R." novelty records are heading for the charts. Society matrons are planning Dallas costume parties for the night the program returns. Politicians have climbed on the bandwagon too. Jimmy Carter, at a Dallas fund raiser, confessed with a grin: "I came to Dallas to find out confidentially who shot J.R. If any of you could let me know that, I could finance the whole campaign this fall." Perhaps not: at the Republican Convention...
While Americans have picked up the European habit of dabbling in gold, the French have been buying such hot securities as Engins Matra, whose products range from sports cars to armaments, up a sizzling 605% since 1977; pop radio station Europe No. 1, up 72%; chemical giant Rhóne-Poulenc, up 149%; and food producer BSN-Gervais Danone...
...Will ...for Now); "a belch from the Nixon era" (Rooster Cogburn); "the same brand of sanctifying horse manure" (Bound for Glory); and "his way of pissing on us" (The Entertainer). Worse, says Adler, long sections of Kael's writing suffer from lapses in logic and an irritating habit of relying on rhetorical questions to make a point. Adler's evidence: 26 examples gleaned from the book: "Is it just the pompadour or is he wearing a false nose?" "Is it relevant that Bertolucci's father's name was Attilio?" "Where was the director?" "Does the cavalry...
...from his late wife Marion. Retired early from his Wall Street law practice, he lives on his 10,000 mountainous acres in North Carolina, dabbles in his wife's philanthropies and plays a lot of golf. On the links, he has lately developed a nasty slice and the habit of blacking out and falling down. The problem is neurological, and something more. Percy writes: "There ... stands Will Barrett on the edge of a gorge in old Carolina, a talented agreeable wealthy man living in as pleasant an environment as one can imagine and yet who is thinking of putting...