Word: penchant
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...things go too far. Roberts has a penchant for jarring a hideous orange and a vile pink together. Everywhere. Orange chairs with pink seats. Pink and orange wall patterns. It's painful...
...control, the suit charged, Hughes had forced the company to buy planes that did not fit its needs, notably 20 Super-Constellations. TWA wrote the Connies off its books as a $38 million loss after flying them only a year and a half. Hughes countersued, but when his penchant for privacy kept him from testifying in court, a federal judge held him in "willful default" and threw out his case...
...rarely invited more than ten, included few women (two at most). He abhorred water, put goldfish in the water pitchers to discourage would-be teetotalers. Once at table, his guests braced themselves for surprises. Much of Lautrec's cuisine was inspired variations on classic dishes, but his real penchant was for the exotic: eel liver, fried octopus, thrush en casserole...
...Could Get Killed. Nowadays any movie about spies automatically becomes a spoof, since a hero with a penchant for sex and violence hardly dares to go at it with a straight face. In Killed, James Garner pops his eyes and furrows his brow over the quaint proposition that the colony of international spies quartered in Lisbon has nothing better to do than chase around trying to filch $5,000,000 worth of smuggled industrial diamonds. Cast as a standard case of mistaken identity, Garner eludes more than 20 villains who sport accents to match their allegiances. Helping along from crisis...
Anyone with bets down on both the Clay-Cooper fight and the Preakness is going to need two TV sets to keep track of the action this Saturday. For once, it isn't due to the networks' penchant for counterprogramming. Both events are being held simultaneously: the heavyweight championship bout, live from London via Early Bird satellite (ABC, 5-6:30 p.m.);* the 91st running of the Triple Crown classic, live from Pimlico...