Word: habits
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...some people become addicted to alcohol if most do not? The reasons, says Vaillant, are as complex as people. Once hooked, argues Vaillant, an alcoholic drinks from habit and not to resolve conflict...
Nevertheless, expert dialogue sustains the novel. Sample the glib openness of Parlabane, whose career has included a bout as a gay, sado-masochistic academic (at Princeton, no less), a stint as a drug trafficker in Greece, and time done in a monastery. Still wearing his monk's habit, he has come back to the university to sponge off his former colleagues, and, of course, to write the modern Proust. Davies blends in Parlabane's speech the erstwhile academic, mincing clergyman, mincing homosexual, and streetwise manipulator...
...conspiracy to kill Caesar, looks properly "lean and hungry." More than in many productions of Shakespeare, thought is given to differentiating the subordinate female characters; Brutus's wife Portia (Crystal Miller) is tiny, delicate-looking, with a voice of steel, while the more ineffectual Calpurnia (Melinda McCrary) has a habit of turning back and forth to the various characters on stage, as if entreating them to listen to her. And when Caesar's ghost walks across the stage to warn Brutus of impending doom--an effect which, like the ghost scene in Hamlet, tends to inspire the most ridiculous devices...
...lying, other than routine propaganda, our Defense Department has a regrettable habit of overstating the Soviet threat, and thus our need for all types of weapons, and this habit must be broken if we are ever to control our defense budget. But these facts are mere trifles when compared to Soviet actions over the past 40 years, and it would be ludicrous to draw from them the conclusion that the U.S. is more or even as likely as the Soviets to begin a nuclear...
SENTENCED. Giovanni Vigliotto, 54, (authorities say he is really Fred Jipp, 47), flea-market merchant who made a habit, and a living, out of wooing, wedding and then fleecing his wives (he claims to have married 105 women in the past 20 years); to 34 years in state prison, the maximum sentence, plus a $336,000 fine, for his February conviction on bigamy and fraud charges brought by one of the 105, Patricia Ann Gardiner; in Phoenix...