Word: penchant
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...lives. It turns out that "Gator Collet had a troubled past" and was involved in "a series of skirmishes" with officials at a school that he later left. His motorcycle-driving father "sports a shaved head, a pigtail, and tattoos." The family owns two old Corvettes and has a penchant for decorating their house with Native American artifacts...
...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...
...biggest Soviet-era military holiday to rebuke hard-liners, including dissident officers, for trying "to play the army card" in a bid to derail Russian democracy. The next day 20,000 procommunist and ultranationalist demonstrators rallied next to the Kremlin to demand Yeltsin's resignation. A penchant for disappearing during major power struggles again raised public doubts about Yeltsin's health and political acumen. But the beleaguered President could take comfort in the week's only bright spot: an announcement that he and U.S. President Bill Clinton will hold their first summit on April 4. The meeting should provide some...
...Marquis" examines the work of the Marquis de Sade, the French nobleman with a legendary penchant for bizarre sexual escapades. Sade's writings detail every form of sexual perversion and violent fixation conceivable. Few besides the surrealists and the existentialists credit him with any great contribution to literature, but "Marquis" derives both political and psychological insights from his legacy...
...SWAT team. Cracked one agent: "He didn't have his gun in the shower like in the spaghetti westerns." Federal agents say that Casso, a Lucchese family underboss street-named "Gaspipe" (possibly because of his blowtorch safecracking skills), was hated within the crime family because of his penchant for ordering hits simply because a fellow mobster annoyed him. "We felt that some of the tips were coming from the Luccheses," says FBI agent Donald North, who supervises organized-crime investigations in New York City. "The family wanted him off the street." The elusive Casso was on the run from federal...