Word: penchant
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...Kanter has a more specific and pressing challenge in Side Man: it is his directorial debut. A veteran of Tommy, A Winter’s Tale and Hasty Pudding Theatricals, Kanter’s penchant for treading the boards is clearly evident in his managerial style during rehearsal. “One thing I am very aware of as an actor is that anything a director can tell an actor doesn’t matter if the actor can’t do it naturally,” he explains. Despite the narrative’s virtuosic leaps across time...
...These war rugs have been on display lately at the Dirt Gallery in Los Angeles. Afghanistan's recent travails have made them all the more poignant, and they've sold well. Some buyers are Hollywood hipsters with a penchant for ironic decor. Others have been U.S. soldiers and ex-CIA operatives who could identify the models of the rugs' grenades and guns. Alongside its rug exhibit, the gallery has displayed burqas bearing similarly unexpected imagery such as U.S. flags, phrases like "I love New York," and McDonald's golden arches. "It kind of sums up America," says curator Rhonda Saboff...
While Columbia’s band seems to revel in its bad-boy image, the Harvard University Band—which historically has shared the Ivy League penchant for off-color gibes at opposing teams—is quietly moving toward a less controversial program...
...extinction of a large Australian bird called Genyornis newtoni 50,000 years ago was likely due to the colonization of the continent by humans. Around the same time, a whopping 85 percent of Australian land animals larger than about 100 pounds went extinct. The evidence shows that the Australian penchant for barbecues was significantly responsible for that...
...asked Cleland whom he was planning on bringing down next: phone psychics? Gene Shalit? The woman on the other end of the phone-sex line who probably isn't a 25-year-old blond with large breasts and a penchant for the phrase "much funnier writer than David Sedaris"? I may have revealed a little too much...