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...response to a student's question, DeJean said that the greatest indictment of journalists is that they have a "penchant for labeling things" and for trying to establish a formula for coverage in a very complicated world...
...when he set out to write The Offering, but somewhere along the way he got lost. Instead of a powerful tale of emotional and cultural conflict, Reid has written an extraordinarily convoluted and cliche-ridden spy story, replete with stoic federal agents, femmes fatales and toothless goons with a penchant for breaking people's kneecaps (a fine old Irish revolutionary tradition). The accent is definitely on the shoot-em-up angle; and if Father O'Neill behaves less like a man of the cloth and more like a pleasantly libidinous edition of Robert Redford--well, at least you know...
Israel is understandably uneasy about the prospect of having a radical Palestinian state next door, considering the violence for which some Palestinian groups have shown a penchant. Last week those fears were once again reinforced. In London, the P.L.O.'s representative. Said Hammami, was shot dead by an unknown assailant. Only four days earlier, a short distance away, two passengers in a Syrian embassy car had been killed by a bomb. Hammami was known as a moderate who in the past had been savagely criticized by radicals for refusing to demand the liquidation of Israel. Fortnight ago, there were...
...been temporarily denied-and four concerts canceled-because members of the group had minor criminal records. But no repro-vals were necessary at the Great South East Music Hall (capacity 500), which is located in an Atlanta shopping center. Vicious' worst offense offstage came from his penchant for flagrant free enterprise. He cheekily charged reporters for interviews, asking what he thought the traffic would bear but settling for as little...
...Soviet's penchant for bed-hopping deals a rude blow to the naive Emilia, who is further jolted when she learns of her mother's dabbling in adultery with Rosie (Anthony Zerbe), an old conductor-buddy who is currently between marriages. Emilia drowns her sorrows in a sleazy Manhattan bar one afternoon before a matinee, affecting a Russian accent while two good ol' boys from out of town try to pick her up. Her inebriation leads directly into an all-too-contrived comic device wherein Browne totters about the stage during the performance while mentor Bancroft winces in the wings...