Word: penchant
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Eszterhas quickly displayed his penchant for squaring off against Hollywood heavyweights. He withstood the demands of F.I.S.T. star Sylvester Stallone for a share of screenplay credit. Several years later he butted heads with studio executives over the ending of the courtroom drama Jagged Edge. His greatest confrontation came in 1989, when he decided to leave the Creative Artists Agency for rival ICM and, according to Eszterhas, CAA honcho Michael Ovitz threatened to have his "foot soldiers who go up and down Wilshire Boulevard each day . . . blow your brains...
Edward comes off as an annoying troubadour with a penchant for spouting verse and a seemingly encyclopedic knowledge about the origins of everyday things. One keeps hoping in vain for the famed English reserve to come into play...
...rage and embarrassment: In the May 19th issue, Mr. Stephen Frank wrote a story whose eye-catching headline proclaimed: "HDS Food Safety is Questioned: Cook Died of AIDS." This tabloid-like text reeks of the spirit of the illustrious Mr. Hearst who, as we all know, had a particular penchant for yellow--journalism, that...
...Appiah suggested that Black and Latino students performed less well than their Asian and white counterparts because racist incidents and innuendoes make it hard to concentrate on academics. In an effort to diffuse the phenomenon of Asian success, president of the Asian American Association Joan Cheng '95 pathologized the penchant of her Asian American peers to achieve academically. As an Asian, she explains, "if you don't do well, you feel guilty...
...face-to-face encounter with Bill Clinton, who has already shown how broad the gap in mutual understanding could be. Dining with Russian President Boris Yeltsin at the Vancouver summit, Clinton remarked that "when the Japanese say yes to us, they often mean no." While many Japanese acknowledge their penchant for the ambiguous, the White House rushed to forestall any damage to the U.S.-Japan relationship. Clinton, said spokesman George Stephanopoulos, was only making "a casual comment about Japanese courtesy and etiquette." Even so, the Clinton-Miyazawa talks are unlikely to be a love feast. Coming to power after...