Word: penchant
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...course, Bowie was always more than merely jarring. To lump him with Alice Cooper, as many do, is a mistake. Despite Cooper's first name and penchant for mascara, his songs were as straight as the midwestern plains from which he came. Cooper's charm, nurtured by Zappa's aesthetic of ugliness, lies elsewhere, perhaps in the psychic territory of a sixth grader...
...Saturday Rostropovich conveyed only affection, whether he was fondling Pooks, talking about his penchant for Chinese food, or embracing and kissing everyone in sight, as he did at Saturday's reception. The joy he shows today contrasts with the sad memories he has of the Soviet Union, where his refusal to participate in what he calls "officially organized persecution campaigns" cost him his professional and social freedom several years ago. "I lived," he says, "according to my conscience and my heart...
...press's performance on Carter. The Village Voice's Alexander Cockburn developed a monomania for blasting Carter as a "reactionary," which is all very fine, but misrepresented his positions on the death penalty, aid to New York City and right-to-work laws, which is not. Cockburn's penchant for hyperbole is particularly regrettable since his more general case, that Carter is slick and exhibits rightist tendencies, is a convincing one. The real hatchet job, though, appeared in Harper's last week. One of the feistier dirtdaubers in Atlanta, Steven Brill, weighed in with a piece, "Jimmy Carter's Pathetic...
...peppered with references to laudelets, phaetons, barques of frailty, diamonds of the first water, and vouchers to Almack's. A careful reader is also likely to be familiar with the origin of Lady Sally Jersey's nickname, the Prince Regent's confused marital status, and Lord Petersham's penchant for mixing snuff. Heyer's research into the lifestyle of the peerage may not have produced great sociological tracts, but she certainly knew what the requisite costume for a nuncheon party was, and why Beau Brummel was good ton and Letty Lade...
Women's film-making, like recent women's literature, is, by and large, dominated by those with a penchant for subjective reporting--documentation of a personal struggle, digging into one's past for an explanation of the present. At times, this genre, this "let-me-spill-out-my-guts-to-you", can become tedious and self-indulgent (witness Ms. Magazine). At times, however, it can be extremely effective...