Word: penchants
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...also in bad taste, though it cannot stand comparison to Brooks' most egregious caper, the Springtime for Hitler number in The Producers. But goldarned if it doesn't work. Goldarned if the whole fool enterprise is not worth the attention of any moviegoer with a penchant for what one actor, commenting on another's Gabby Hayes imitation, calls "authentic western gibberish...
Tapping Tuktoyaktuk. Exxon's world intelligence network and penchant for long-range planning have given it a head start in coping with the oil shortage. A decade ago, Monroe J. Rathbone, then chairman, began to get more and more reports that oil use was running increasingly ahead of new discoveries-and that Arabs would one day demand greater control over their resources. He ordered a stepped-up search for oil-even though the world then had a crude glut. In the past decade, Exxon's worldwide reserves have increased more than 9 billion bbl., or 21%. Crews are now searching...
Negotiations are also likely to be conditioned by Kissinger's penchant for face-to-face negotiations. So successful has the Secretary of State been in the Middle East that he has become a status symbol: Arab leaders now want to talk to no one lower. Both Kuwait and Abu Dhabi recently refused to see Assistant Secretary of State Joseph J. Sisco when Kissinger proposed sending him to give a briefing on the Egyptian-Israeli talks. But Kissinger, for the next month at least, is booked for Western Hemisphere consultations, including discussions with Panama on the status of the Panama...
...know now, stranger than we could have imagined. Each month for the last year or so has brought a new book calculated to shock, titillate, and endear these brilliant perverts to out hearts. Lytton Strachey's fascination with the eroticism of the ear, John Maynard Keynes's penchant for the hand, and G. Lowes Dickinson's boot fetishism have all been the subject of recent studies. At the center of it all stands Virginia Woolf, whose sexuality threatens to become a serious literary question. Her nephew Quentin Bell, in his otherwise admirable biography, claimed she was frigid; now Nicolson publishes...
Brooks shares something else with Dunlop a penchant for commuting back and forth to Washington. Brooks is president of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and serves on a variety of government groups, in clouding a commission dealing with scientific and technological cooperation with the Soviet Union...