Word: habits
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Perhaps if Julian Lowenfeld as Serge could express overpowering impatience, anguish, and self-doubt (the three emotions the playwright relies on), we might take the shaky underpinnings of the play on faith. But though Lowenfeld is intermittently believable, he has an unfortunate habit of substituting decibels for modulations in expression and timbre. His loud rages are contrived rather than compelled: Gabriel, rocking silently in his chair, is the more effective emblem of the family's failure to communicate without hurting. As Monique says after Serge has thoughtlessly ignored her: "That's the first thing we should learn in life...
Clemens makes a habit of knowing what is going to happen. Last year Harvard upset the Crusaders, 24-17, and a tailback named Andy Clivio gained just 18 yards on 13 carries. "You could've shot a cannon through the stadium last year and you wouldn't have hit anyone who thought we'd win it," Clemens remembered...
Harvard's hopes for winning today-which it must do to stay in contention for the Ivy title-rest largely on its ability to stop Potter. The Bruin co-captain's habit of averaging 2.5 interceptions per game may make things easier for the visitors...
...years, she does not pretend to scientific expertise. Her role is to draw attention to the dangers, to persuade parents and teen-agers to get professional help quickly. Her questions this morning are simple. "When was it," she asks a former N.F.L. player who finally conquered the habit, "that you realized that you had to do something?" Over and over again she gets youngsters to acknowledge that peer pressure started them on the road to addiction...
...casual observer of tomorrow's Head of the Charles it might seem unlikely, but there are bigger and more prestigious regattas. Jamie Hanson is making a habit of rowing in them...