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With his dark suits and wing tips, Kasich evokes Chamber of Commerce orthodoxy--or he would if he ever managed to run a comb through his bowl-cut hair, which makes him look like an unruly teenager. He also has a penchant for the goofy. One Budget Committee brainstorming session opened to the strains of Wooly Bully punctuated by a Nerf gunfight between Budget staff members and lobbyists. He will wave a toy hatchet at an interviewer one moment and say earnestly the next: ``I want you to believe this, too, that intellectually what we're talking about is right...
...penchant for understatement may help explain his ability to satisfy so wide an audience. He was a master of the graceful exit, the teasing diminuendo. He had a fondness for half-concealing his cleverest effects, so that you might have to read a poem two or three times before you detect the rhyme of "dirigible" with "unmarriageable" or "rosy" with "Mafiosi." Dexterity was simply one of the givens of his work-as was his erudition, his homosexuality, his wealth, his cosmopolitan life...
Coffey has shown competence in every aspect of his council career; even the confusion surrounding his handling of Yale Game tickets eventually showed that Coffey was working for students' interests. While his actions have sometimes suggested a penchant for posing (as homeless in the Square, or as the "Angry Pilgrim"), Coffey has not allowed his own political aspirations to obscure his focus on the wellbeing of students...
With her impudent wit, penchant for baseball caps and indulgence in high-powered '80s socializing, HEATHER WATTS never fit the image of demure ballerina. Known for sharp movements and an idiosyncratic style, she suffered poor reviews early in her career but won critics over in Balanchine's 1980 Davidsbundlertanze. Last week Watts, a principal dancer at the New York City Ballet, retired at 41, ending her final performance tearfully amid a blizzard of flowers. She is about to begin a career as a journalist and will cover the arts as a contributing editor for Vanity Fair...
...refused to return to the Braves after his father's funeral because he did not enjoy his platoon role; and when the club suspended him, Sanders called that "the worst betrayal by a team in all sports history." Though there's nothing major on his rap sheet, Sanders' penchant for trouble is well documented. Perhaps his greatest crime, though, was icing, which is a minor infraction in hockey but a major felony when it involves Tim McCarver. During the celebration that followed the Braves' win over the Pittsburgh Pirates in Game 7 of the 1992 National League championship series, Sanders...