Word: penchant
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...being baby boomers, what they were interested in was themselves. The result was thirtysomething, the landmark domestic saga whose characters' exploration of their own emotional landscapes owed a lot to the writers' penchant for self-examination. Not much has changed a decade later. "The minute I told Ed I was separating from my wife in '93," says Herskovitz, "he started to talk about all the stories you could tell...
...tinged Mod look is the scene in clubs around the country. Vintage scooter riders with a penchant for the Who, '60s soul and contemporary Britpop bands like Blur and Oasis are let into many of these clubs for free--it's good for the atmosphere. Piper Ferguson, a promoter at Hollywood's Cafe Bleu, says that on some nights as many as 100 twentysomethings--sporting shiny sharkskin suits, pointy Beatles boots and tattoos--line up their bikes in the club lot. But Vespa fanatics include businessmen, middle-aged women and just regular guys. Hairstylist Robert Winslow, 29, moved from...
...saving? Or did you live in a free-spending environment? Did you work as a teen? Pay your way through college? Values are often handed down. Understand your partner's financial roots. Talk about credit cards. One of the biggest causes of early divorce is one spouse's penchant for running up the balance while the other saves. Opposites attract. But can you live with...
...Dean of the College Harry R.Lewis `68, entering his fifth year on the job.Lewis has proven that he is not afraid to makeunpopular decisions--like randomization andtighter alcohol policies--but this boldness,coupled with a penchant for sticking his foot inhis mouth, have not won the dean many friendsamong students...
Negin said in an e-mail message that Bush "has a certain penchant for late-night, drunken nakedness, either alone or with his roommates, running around the Quad naked on any given night from a Monday afternoon to late Saturday night. This disturbs us and sometimes amuses...