Word: penchant
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Gurry stickhandled and skated like a forward and showed a slap shot that can be dangerous from outside the blue line. He is clearly a coming star if his penchant for explosive checking doesn't draw too many costly penalties or get him caught too far from his goal...
...deployment of the ABM system [Sept. 22] is not only an indication of the present Administration's absurd penchant for wasting tax dollars, but a grave crime against man's will to survive. It will likely open the way to vaster, more absurd mechanizations of defense. If it is never used, the magnitude of such a dead investment will reproach mankind in its folly for generations to come. If it is employed, it will not even protect urban areas; we may die with the satisfaction of knowing that most of "them" will be just as dead. I cannot...
...calling him "a man of major stature." They were somewhat at a loss to explain how such a great master could have been consigned to oblivion for so long. The best explanation seemed to be that Schönfeld's preoccupation with the macabre and the absurd, his penchant for scenes of gravediggers and treasure seekers, marked him as a German Romantic two centuries ahead of his time. Then, too, Schönfeld limned his scenes of violence in a cool, depersonalized vein. In the opinion of Ulm's deputy director, Dr. Wilhelm Lehmbruck, "It is this remoteness...
...Ambassador, which boasts air conditioning as standard equipment, one commercial features a gum-chewing floozy strolling along a desert road; she refuses to be picked up by drivers of non-A.M.C. cars, but happily hops into a cool, comfortable Ambassador. Another commercial spoofs Detroit's penchant for depicting its cars in country-club surroundings. It shows elegantly coifed beauties swooping from swank settings into modest A.M.C. Rebels just as contentedly as if the cars were Continentals. Meanwhile, an off-camera voice proclaims: "Either we're charging too little for our cars or everyone else is charging...
Director Luis Bunuel, who once made a film with Salvador Dali showing an eyeball being shaved, again indulges his penchant for cinematic surrealism and elliptical dialogue. When a window breaks, a guest scoffs, "It's just a passing Jew." A woman carries chicken feet and feathers in her purse. A man shaves his leg with an electric razor. A hand without an owner fingers its way across the room. Throughout, Bunuel continues his career-long attack on church and stately. One woman sneers, "I think the lower classes are less sensitive to pain." Another begs for a washable rubber...