Word: penchant
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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What makes the album uniquely Lennon's, though, is his penchant for enigmatic lyrics. His messages verge on the opaque, although the main theme almost always becomes salient by a song's last note. On "Home," a meld of late-era Beatles and guitar-heavy modern rock, "The broken glass that fades/The past is a parade of countless days/Painting patterns in the sand" vaults Sean out of escapism into confronting his legacy in order to move on. "Mystery Juice" is an exception to the rule as Sean makes himself completely indiscernible: "They stole the show and towed the rowboat/Though slow/We...
...case of our shameless President. Somehow we must keep the moral and ethical issues in the forefront and resolve them in such a way that our children have positive examples to pattern their lives on. It is unfortunate that the moral issue in this case involves sex. The American penchant for locker-room humor has permitted the immorality of President Clinton's behavior to become clouded, at least, and perhaps even approved of by a cadre of admiring misfits with no respect for the vulnerability of the young. HUGH R. CALLUM Aboard the Yacht Meachelle Sailing on the Caribbean...
Francisco led Harvard in assists and overall scoring this year with 36 assists and a record 57 points, and Suurkask was the Crimson's leader in goals with 30 and second in scoring with 51 points. They showed early and often a penchant for knowing where the other was on the ice, and most of each one's scoring chances came on setups from the other...
...addiction to battle (unless one considers his penchant for six-packs and Big Macs), but he had everything to prove. Wells has become the butt of hardball jokes, wearing his Yankee uniform like a pair of pajamas and angrily flipping balls to manager Joe Torre when he's yanked from games...
...them as it is with stray pets, worn tires, and missing keys." He is a saint maybe, like one of the exceedingly normal yet extraordinarily courageous and strong characters who populate the works of Anne Tyler; a modern day tragic hero whose Achilles' heel and fatal flaw is a penchant for liquor. Lou Sloane's abrupt and cruel parting from Billie rouses Hex from his lackadaisical work as a publicist. Hex is the only other person who can interpret his mother's "syllabic puree;" he knows that Lou has stuck him 'with her, yet he gradually comes to accept...