Word: penchant
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...Quad, home of three Harvard houses and at least two student artists with a penchant for landscape art, is now the resting place for 100 bales of hay, stacked to form a set of sculptures reminiscent of ancient ruins--columns, building outlines, paths and gates...
...race world where the challenge is finding time to read. So we're inviting people to carve out some quality time and get into this magazine." By January "Make Time for TIME" will have found its way to magazines, television, radio, newspapers, billboards and, given Lois' penchant for invention, perhaps some as-yet-undreamed-of place as well...
...oddsbusters are Peter Guber and Jon Peters, whose penchant for producing such hits as The Color Purple and Batman has brought Warner hundreds of ( millions of dollars. When Sony announced its agreement to pay $3.4 billion in September for Columbia Pictures Entertainment, the Japanese firm impressed Hollywood with its savvy choice of executives to run the studio: Guber and Peters. But there was one major hitch: in March the two had signed a five-year contract with Warner, which the studio claims was an exclusive arrangement...
...Bakker contritely told U.S. District Judge Robert Potter just before the sentencing. "I have sinned. I have made mistakes. But never in my life did I intend to defraud anyone." That last-ditch bid for leniency made little impression on the judge, known as "Maximum Bob" because of his penchant for stiff sentences. "Those of us who do have a religion are sick of being saps for money- grubbing preachers and priests," Potter angrily told the defendant. Bakker, 49, was quickly bound in handcuffs and leg-irons and driven to a federal facility in Talladega, Ala., to begin serving...
When the Swedish Academy last week announced its choice for the 1989 Nobel Prize for Literature, the reaction across the globe might be summarized as Que Cela, Cela? Was the award to Spanish author Camilo Jose Cela, 73, another example of the Academy's penchant for giving unheard-of writers undreamt-of recognition? Yes, in the sense that Cela has not had much impact outside his native land for a quarter-century. But on reflection, the better answer is no, for Cela, though now little read, has amassed a body of powerful, disturbing work -- and lived a risky, iconoclastic life...