Word: inhabited
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Travolta's apparent indifference to the upward and downward lurches of his career that draws him the nervous attention he has trouble comprehending. People in the movie business like to pretend they inhabit a rational universe, one where you can determine a star's course through a series of well-plotted career moves. Strolling equably through a universe he implicitly defines as chaotic, playing what amounts to a real-life Chili Palmer--mannerly, sweet-spirited, yet utterly confident of his own strength--Travolta calls all their operating assumptions into question. And deepens his own mystery...
...with self-deprecation: to reduce the impact in such historically significant words, black people may use this word pejoratively. Listen to any hard-core rap song and you will hear the ubiquitous use of the words "nigger" and "bitch." These terms, in use by groups of black racists who inhabit the inner-cities, are part of a crude culture that is destroying the African-American community...
...float around for a relaxing ride onBoston's famous Swan Boats which inhabit thelandscaped ponds of the French-inspired PublicGarden next to the Englishstyle Common...
...visit by an administrator, further smoking is difficult to prevent on a student-to-student basis. Furthermore, the source of smoke can be hard to locate in modern buildings with extensive ventilation systems. Non-smoking buildings guarantee clean air in rooms, corridors and elevators as long no smokers surreptitiously inhabit them...
...couple, Ouisa Kittredge and her art-dealer husband Flan, inhabit a rarefied world in which they take for grantedKandinskys in the living room, multi-millionaire dinner guests and Ivy League children ("Two at Harvard, one at Groton...