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Slumped in a chair in his Washington office last week, Bradley was depressed not only about the Administration's penchant for law-and-order solutions to the virtual exclusion of other remedies but also by the lack of an insightful & response on the part of his own Democratic Party. "I had hoped that L.A. would provide the opportunity for people to be candid with each other about the dimension of the problems as well as the aspects of the problems, and to treat them with urgency," said Bradley. "But that hasn't happened...
...with many another Huston project, the minor characters soon become more diverting than the principals. An eloquent beggar child turns out to be a 40- year-old dwarf, his growth stunted "with stories, with truth, with warnings and predictions." Everyone else in Green Shadows has a similar penchant for the exaggerated anecdote ("Getting to the point," observes one, "could spoil the drink and ruin the day"). Bradbury has a musician's ear, and he makes their boozy exchanges as bright and merry as coins clinking on the bar of a pub. Even the teetotaling George Bernard Shaw has a memorable...
...North Pole event illustrates another aspect of Counter's character: Whether he's bringing a celebrity to campus or filming tribes in the South America, counter does things with flair. The man has a penchant for publicity...
Since becoming director of the Harvard Foundation for Intercultural and Race Relations, he also has had a penchant for controversy...
...truly trivial issue, revealing only because it illustrates Clinton's penchant for legalistic evasiveness. Questioned about pot smoking, Clinton first said he had never broken U.S. or state laws -- an answer clearly designed to convey the impression that he had never tried the weed, without his actually saying so. When someone finally asked the obvious question -- what about while he was abroad? -- Clinton confessed that he had smoked marijuana as a Rhodes scholar at Oxford in the late '60s but felt compelled to add that not only had he not liked it, he had not even inhaled -- an assertion that...