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...relationship between the diminutive, breezy Midge, with her penchant for salty language, and the straitlaced President is light and easy. As Carter greeted her with a hug and kiss at one group meeting, Costanza cracked, "Well, now you all know what I do in the White House." Says a veteran Carter hand: "Midge puts a little fun in his day-and he needs it." Some feel that her joshing comes on a bit too strong. But, notes an associate, "a more serious woman would be too threatening to them." "Them" refers to the Georgia Mafia led by Hamilton Jordan...
Marine Corps enthusiasm may be the root of the Harrier's troubles. General Carey acknowledges that the decision to assign young pilots fresh from flight school to qualify as pilots of the complicated Harrier, along with the Marines' usual penchant for difficult missions, may have been factors in the crashes. Senior officers in the British Royal Air Force agree...
...advice of two additional helmsmen -one for upwind legs, another for downwind-in devising racing strategy. Says North: "I do things more by what seems to be right by testing and not by how it feels. I'm an analytical sailor." But his restlessness on board and his penchant for consulting everyone on tactical decisions rattled his sailors. Enterprise Crewman Andy MacGowan explains: "The problem with North's style is that things happen so fast in a race. You haven't got the luxury of time." Still, North seems to have settled down in recent weeks...
Cria! is about a little girl named Ana (played by the haunting Ana Torrent) who has an innocent penchant for wandering into situations that she cannot fully comprehend. Having witnessed her mother's anguish before her death from cancer, Ana becomes convinced that her philandering father is somehow responsible. She decides to poison him and succeeds-or so she firmly believes. Thereafter, when an aunt who has been appointed guardian to her and her sisters seems to be straying out of line, Ana again resorts to the poison bottle. But Auntie lives. The "poison" turns...
...even more questionable. Sennett does not write about Boswell, who during these years publicly frequented the salons of London to make connections that would further his private political ambitions. Nor does he make any mention of the widespread 18th century practice of keeping diaries meant for publication, a private penchant performed for public profit...