Word: penchant
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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From there he went on to record for the Blue Note label in 1985. On his most recent album Cornucopia Jordan sought to demonstrate his ability to play with other musicians, and he succeeded. Yet his penchant...
...cellular phone to call her management company in New York, which phoned the limo service, which phoned the driver, who turned the air conditioning down; the time in New York when she and Luciano Pavarotti competed to see which could arrive later for a dress rehearsal. Battle has a penchant for changing hotel suites in the middle of a stay just to vary the color of her surroundings. After her appearances at the San Francisco Opera this season, the backstage crew sported T shirts that read: I SURVIVED THE BATTLE...
Explaining his penchant for autobiographical films, McElwee says, "I can get a kind of perspective on my own life that gives me more flexibility in shaping some sort of final film...With my own life the limitations are only imposed by myself." He adds, "It also takes care of the huge problem I have of invading other poeple's lives with the movie camera....It's kind of contained: you work it out with your own family, your own friends....It sometimes seems it's the only place where cameras haven't been--my own life." With his unique claim...
...zinging male bluster: "And then along came that greasy, flabby small-minded, mealy-mouthed, pasty-faced, and potato-headed daily fishwrap and dog's biffy, The Picayune-Moon, edited by that dildo Hector Timmy. (You.)" This story works because it remains within the realm of possibility, where Keillor's penchant for hyperbole and his expansive, ingenious vocabulary stretch the ordinary into the hilarious...
...suitably accoutered, Mei Yang seduces the wife of Kuen (Kent Chung), a brutal silk merchant. Humiliated, Kuen leaves the town and becomes a gardener in the house where Yuk Heung languishes. Mei Yang is taken in by a pair of lesbian cousins with a penchant for flutes, food and S&M. Engaged in Blakean excess, Mei Yang is unaware that, perhaps to justify the "Zen" in the title, a day of reckoning awaits...