Word: penchants
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...often hard to distinguish between technique and superstition in sports. Harvard men's tennis singles whiz William Stanley '87 includes his penchant for bouncing the ball four times before each serve in the category of technique, specifically rhythm...
...predecessor, but such knowledge can hardly hurt. It is helpful, for instance, to understand that Piers Aubrey, who has deserted his wife and four children shortly before This Real Night opens, was not simply "a gambler" as he is subsequently described, but a crusading newspaper editor with a penchant for ruinous plunges in the stock market. Members of his family mourn the disappearance of a good man and suffer at the realization that his reason for departing was accurate: they are better off financially without...
Whether the subject is the beefiest burger or the biggest corporation, Americans have a penchant for making lists of the best and the worst, then arguing about the results. Since 1939, when Psychologist E.L. Thorndike devised a "goodness index" to rate U.S. cities, no rankings have inspired more disagreement than those about home sweet home. The latest edition of Rand McNally's Places Rated Almanac can only add to the controversy. According to the 449-page paperback released last week, the best all-round metropolitan area in which to live in the U.S. is Pittsburgh. The worst: Yuba City, Calif...
...notoriety arises not only from his "Style" exercises, in which he depicts a variety of professions and predicaments, but also form hie "Bip" pantomimes. The "Bip" character, whom Marceau created at the beginning of his career, is a clown whose hallmarks are his battered, beflowered opera hat and his penchant for misadventures. In Marceau's stint at the Colonial, he spends the first half of the program engaging in several style pantomimes, and the second half portraying Bip and his further...
...Claiborne. In a career that spanned almost 50 years, he appeared in 1946 on one of the earliest television cooking shows and a decade later opened one of the first modern American cooking schools. The author of numerous newspaper and magazine columns and 23 cookbooks, he best displayed his penchant for simplicity in an early work, The James Beard Cookbook, published...