Word: habits
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Washington's message, moreover, reinforced growing resentment among Russians at what they regard as demeaning and condescending American treatment. Historically, the State Department has not made a habit of commenting on Cabinet changes or giving directions on economic policy in other countries. Making an exception in the case of Russia reinforces the specious but widely believed claims of nationalist politicians that the aim of American policy is to humiliate and weaken Russia...
Inhabiting Toshi's heart and soul with absolute conviction, Brown shows us how Americans might look to a confused admirer, with their "blue-tinged complexions," their "crayon-colored eyes," their habit of wishing on everything, even "when breaking dried chicken bones." In effect, he turns the usual "The Japanese are so strange!" cliche inside out. Toshi's unsteady American girlfriend suddenly says things like, "You think I'm awful, don't you? I am, I'm dreadful and I'm not pretty," and, where the Japanese tend to present images of happy families, Toshi notes, Americans "offer up their unhappy...
...course, even when the news is not local, not about Harvard, it is still equally important. Yet if students don't make a habit of keeping up with what's going on in their own front Yard--pun intended--there is little reason to hope they will keep up on events of interest to others, either nationally or internationally...
...even backed off a little from his nasty habit of scapegoating. Though he still leads the right's "culture war" against gays and welfare moms and blasphemous artists, he's not blaming any of these familiar miscreants for falling wages or capital flight. If you want to talk about the decline of working-class America, you have to talk about footloose and irresponsible corporations. And the least you can say about Buchanan is that he, alone of all the candidates, talks the talk. He's against NAFTA and GATT, which locates him outside the great bipartisan, pro-business, free-trade...
...young boss into Kane--the inhuman vigor, the using of others, the sled he loved as a boy--Mank effectively wrote Welles' autobiography for him in screenplay form. There was a lot of the sour old writer too in the dark vitality of the newspaper scenes, the habit of looking down on men in high places, the name of young Herman's bicycle: Rosebud. The two men privately insisted it was Hearst's pet name for Marion's sex. But that could be an impish trick, just as the whole Rosebud plot is--since, on the evidence of the film...