Word: inhabitations
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Stitches (ABC). Medical students inhabit a coed dorm in this comedy, which blends doctoring with prankish college enthusiasm...
...Very little, beyond the latitudes they inhabit and the way they pronounce three consonant sounds. Language differences are tantamount to those of a person from Atlanta and one from Boston. Racial and religious characteristics among the ethnic Vietnamese, who comprise some 85 per cent of the country's population, are virtually undifferentiated. Tribal minorities, who generally inhabit the interior highlands in both the North and South, show a wide diversity of language and culture...
...subtle but important difference. Whites, for one thing, are seen in the widest possible variety of shows on TV-dramatic programs, adventures, news specials, sitcoms and so on. (The quality of comedies about whites is occasionally better too: witness The Mary Tyler Moore Show.) Blacks, on the other hand, inhabit a restricted range of TV formats; apart from their roles as local newspersons and a peppering of parts on integrated shows (a smart detective on Police Woman, for example), they are mostly seen in situation comedies...
After I've exhausted the limited resources of suburbia, there remains that most hallowed of vacation traditions--visiting the relatives. In my family, that's quite a ritual, because the bulk of my father's large family still lives in one very clannish neighborhood in Brooklyn. They inhabit a world where no one ever moves away, women get married at 18 or 19, and everyone knows everyone else and what they're doing. Visiting my grandmother, one of the local matriarchs, is always an occasion Despite our protest that we have eaten, overeaten, or can feel our aortas congealing into...
...uninitiated, a gnome stands a half-foot high, and weighs two-thirds of a pound. He is a nocturnal person who wears a long, pointed cap on his head at all times. Gnomes mostly inhabit Europe, Siberia, and North America, and a few have even been sighted in the Harvard College Government Department. They are most assuredly not to be confused with trolls, dwarves, elves, goblins, gremlins or wood nymphs...