Word: penchant
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...other two networks now give him clips of some shows but withhold others, pleading legal difficulties. Given TV's penchant for imitation, it is a fair bet that other stations will follow with TV critics of their...
...title stands for logical positivists, linguistic philosophers and their penchant for verbal gymnastics-of which the play itself is perhaps too full. The time is the near future. A rationalist-oriented "Radical Liberal Party" has taken over England and elevated the ex-Minister of Agriculture to the post of Archbishop of Canterbury. In full sight of millions of televiewers, one British astronaut has clobbered another into the moon dust (there is too little fuel for both of them to return to earth...
Marriage Revealed. F. (for Francis) Lee Bailey, 39, criminal lawyer with a penchant for headline cases; and Lynda Hart, 25, a charter airline stewardess; he for the third time, she for the first; on Aug. 26 in Des Moines, with Iowa Governor Robert Ray and Captain Ernest Medina, Bailey's erstwhile client and current business associate in attendance...
...come from unveiling more than his anatomy. Until two years ago, he says, "I was the tight, constipated actor. I just stood there with my No. 3 virile look and never took chances." Then he drew a guest spot on the Johnny Carson show and revealed an unexpected penchant for putdowns, mostly of himself ("My movies were the kind they show in prisons and airplanes, because nobody can leave"). After that, Reynolds was invited to air his gift of glib on a flock of other talk shows and comedy hours. After seeing him on the tube, Director John Boorman asked...
Texas empire builders like Ross Perot, James Ling and Haroldson L. Hunt have a penchant for headlines -but D. (for Davis) Doyle Mize does not. A self-effacing entrepreneur known by only a few in the upper echelons of business, Mize, 48, is chairman of Houston's Southdown, Inc. In three years under Mize, Southdown has acquired a cluster of companies that drill for oil, develop land, refine sugar, make cement and sell beer, pushing its sales up from $35 million to $182 million, with net profits of $38 million last year. Now Mize is spreading into the thriving...