Word: penchant
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...long the show will run will be determined by how the public receives Snyder's penchant for rudeness. The audience is out there--ABC's In Concert proved that much. Tomorrow is the next big step toward the 24 hour programming networks have been threatening--not old movies, but starmaking, money-grossing productions. The investment in Tomorrow is small, and if the show fails, the experiment will definitely be repeated...
This pair, both Americans, illustrate Powell's penchant for isolating national and temperamental types. Glober is a sixtyish, playboy film producer, a self-made man up from Jewish-immigrant slums, who takes a snippet of pubic hair from every woman he seduces. Gwinnett is a withdrawn, thirtyish academic, a descendant of Button Gwinnett, the first signer of the Constitution, who has a whiff of necrophilia in his makeup. Both are drawn to Pamela partly because of her infamous liaison (in Books Do Furnish a Room) with the late writer X. (for nothing, not for Xavier) Trapnel, the possible source...
...your mourning clothes, let me ask for a show of hands in this hall from anyone who had any part in it." Getting across his point that the party should not take the blame for the acts of a "few individuals," Connally then indulged a frequent penchant for overstatement by going on to compare any Watergate-caused "class indictment" against Republicans to "religious indictments and racial indictments...
Quinn has a penchant for making news as well as reporting it, and her behavior sometimes invites squabbles like the New York magazine one. For four years, she has carried on a rather public liaison with Warren Hoge, city editor of the New York Post. Once, in an interview with another Washington newsman, she proudly described her story about Iran's Empress Farah this way: "It took me four days to get the interview, and then I had to promise my body over and over to the higher...
...Angeles roster-and Alston's penchant for juggling lineups-is so strong that few if any players are considered regulars. Says Don Sutton, the mainstay of a pitching staff that owns the lowest earned-run average (2.87) in the league: "Alston reminds us all in spring training that he's managing for 25 players, not one. He never forgets it, and he makes sure you don't either...