Word: penchant
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Adding to his tactical difficulties, Peres has a credibility problem. He has a reputation in Israel for being weak on security issues. In part, this is because he was never a combat soldier, unlike many other prominent Israeli political figures. His penchant for making dreamy, naive predictions about "the new Middle East" has also earned him suspicion. Says Sam Lewis: "He has a tendency to paint a larger picture than the paintbrush can fill in." On top of all that, Peres strikes many Israelis as too slippery in general. In a country that prizes simple virtues, he dresses a little...
...despite its apparent frivolity, the penchant we "intellectuals" have for palmistry is symptomatic of a looming gap within. It is intellectualism and science which have drilled the hole we seek to fill with fortune-telling. The fact that MIT, renowned capital of science and reason, offers a course in palmistry, proves it. MIT needs some brand of irrationality to counter and assuage its otherwise hyper-ultra-rational pursuits. (Harvard, on the other hand, fulfills its quotient with the Center for Literary and Cultural Studies). True, literature and folk and myth concentrators swarm around Paul; but he is even more accosted...
...Boston city government has a penchant for passing transportation laws that should disappear into the annals of minutiae. First, there was the carpool lane, heralded as the greatest invention since, well, it was invented on the other side of the country...
What still plagues SNL this year is a penchant for sketches that don't seem to have any point. The show's new, unexplainable fixation is with characters who yell at faceless crowds. One has Cheri Oteri in a housecoat screaming at children from her front porch. The skit is too redolent of a scene from Vicki Lawrence's Mama's Family to watch comfortably in its entirety...
...ground, four-foot-long icicles dangling from the eaves and a brigh? orange glow at night from the reflection of street lamps on the snow. Two Cabot House seniors with vision trudged into the middle of the Quad with buckets and pails, a few sketches and a penchant for frostbite...