Word: penchant
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Cria! is about a little girl named Ana (played by the haunting Ana Torrent) who has an innocent penchant for wandering into situations that she cannot fully comprehend. Having witnessed her mother's anguish before her death from cancer, Ana becomes convinced that her philandering father is somehow responsible. She decides to poison him and succeeds-or so she firmly believes. Thereafter, when an aunt who has been appointed guardian to her and her sisters seems to be straying out of line, Ana again resorts to the poison bottle. But Auntie lives. The "poison" turns...
...even more questionable. Sennett does not write about Boswell, who during these years publicly frequented the salons of London to make connections that would further his private political ambitions. Nor does he make any mention of the widespread 18th century practice of keeping diaries meant for publication, a private penchant performed for public profit...
...understand why he attracts them. In many ways, Frye is the consummate humanist. A vigorous exponent of the autonomy of art, he has brought to its study a quasi-scientific rigor. A devotee of the imagination, he exemplifies the critic as creator, combining a vast erudition with a penchant for clear and orderly exposition...
...such moments Serban's penchant for formalized action fuses brilliantly with an actress's, and Chekhov...
...genes?" she queries in blithe ignorance. It is obvious to anyone with a modicum of reasoning powers that Professor Wilson had nothing of the sort in mind when he wrote his book, but was simply suggesting that biological factors as well as environmental effects influence man's well-known penchant for aggression. Such a suggestion, especially considering the vast weight of evidence that backs it up, does not seem particularly far-fetched, nor does it seem in any degree racist. However, if Professor Wilson's views are indeed as absurd as Ms. Rosenthal seems to think, it would be more...