Word: penchant
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PATERNITY ACKNOWLEDGED. By UNCLE DUKE, 21, con man/diplomat/substance abuser, now running an orphanage; in Aspen, Colorado. Lab tests revealed that "Earl," a child in Duke's care with a similarly high forehead and a penchant for shades is, in fact, Duke's son by a stripper. The proud father's reaction: "The feds won't pay me to take care...
...Room in the basement of the West Wing, where Panetta was briefed in person and over video-conference screens by all the relevant agencies. Then Clinton arrived. He had already decided to make a public statement, but now he had some questions of his own. The first betrayed his penchant for wading into the details of a problem. Was it possible, he asked, to ground all the flights from the region around Oklahoma City to prevent the culprits from fleeing by air? (The answer, which Panetta gave him later, was no. To do so would be too serious an infringement...
...Wrong Trousers" is a half hour long claymation extravaganza. It features an adorable dog named Gromit, his demanding (but ultimately loving) owner Wallace, a pair of Techno-trousers gone astray and an evil penguin with a penchant for diamonds and chicken disguises. The outrageous plot and strikingly compelling characters, along with what any animator will attest to be virtuoso (and visually exciting) motion make "Trousers" much more right than wrong...
...Birthday," though just as loved and well-known, unfolds in the more real, though admittedly grotesque world of a work-a-day dentist (the eponymous Bob) who lusts after his butt-scratching, pesticide spraying assistant and helps ruin (if inadvertantly) his own party. Bob's penchant for poetry, pastels and pathetic pronouncements--"Hardly anyone flosses anymore, what's the points?--keeps his "Birthday" very much unlike any kind of morality play on again and marriage, which instead it chooses to spoof...
...loud, accident-prone losers. But NEWT GINGRICH wasn't insulted when the Saturday Night Live comic (and co-star of the new film Tommy Boy) turned up at a meeting of the House Judiciary Committee acting just like him. Farley first took a swipe at the Speaker's penchant for handing out reading lists, offering up one that included a children's book as well as novels by Danielle Steel and Jackie Collins. Imitating Gingrich's rapid-fire delivery, Farley then pushed through bills declaring all Democrats officially weird and moving the nation's capital to Atlanta. He also proposed...