Word: penchant
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Also less than endearing is the protagonist's penchant for philosophizing about sex. Updike can manage heroes with enough testosterone for entire football teams, even fatalistic ones wearing Depends. But when the hero decides that not only does he like sex, but that sex is the natural and proper center of life, he loses a certain amount of reliability. Even die-hard Updike fans may have difficulty stomaching reflections like the following: "When my erection... had attained full stretch, with my left hand cupped nurturingly about my balls, I admired it--the inverted lavender heart-shape of the glans...
...complex as the characters I play, and I'm not. My job is to interpret what someone else has created." Indeed, during a two-hour conversation, the only moment when a glimpse of the real Spacey emerges is when he begins to bellow at questions about his penchant for playing bad guys. Still, as the actor's current hot status in Hollywood attests, weird can be a good career move...
Whew! This is Raymond Chandler's penchant for complex high-low conspiracies writ large. And we haven't even mentioned the police riot, the body decomposing in the basement or the hanging of the D.A. out his office window by his heels in order to elicit information. Nor have we considered the natures of the three lead detectives, who, once they start working in atonal concert, sort of add up to one Philip Marlowe...
...both the CEO's and chairman's job. "I thought about it," he admits, "but decided it wasn't what I wanted to do with my life." Taking the chairman's job, in particular, he said would "scare away" any real candidate for the CEO's job, given Jobs' penchant for down-your-throat management. Yet it may not be much better for the new CEO to have him sitting on the board, especially the reconstituted activist board of Jobs allies that he hopes will keep Apple on the right path. "I've agreed to be a board member...
...effort to reach the broadest possible audience. As he did in Gulliver's Travels, Halmi, who makes all the major casting decisions in his productions, has again married a middle-market star to some otherwise TV-unfriendly material. Armand Assante is our Odysseus here. (Conversely, Halmi has a penchant for pairing unnecessarily qualified talent to schlock product. In his 1983 TV movie Svengali, a young Jodie Foster played an aspiring pop star in love with her aging vocal coach, a part that found Peter O'Toole forced to say things like, "When I make love to a woman, I unwrap...