Word: penchants
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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WANTED: Male, between 22 and 32 years old. Has a penchant for handsome attire, fancy foreign cars, and comes from out of state. He will be looking for isolated property, perhaps even several holdings, and will make the down payment in cash...
...outside of Switzerland. Kreisky was always far more popular than his party, even though he frequently confounded the country with his prominence on the international stage-mediating distant disputes, pleading the cause of the Third World, supporting the Palestine Liberation Organization although he is of Jewish extraction-and his penchant for lecturing Austrians in his gravel voice like an irascible Opa, or grandpapa...
...shabbily sympathetic figure, indulging his id with streams of forbidden cigars, lisping out lines like. "Is it my fault that I hit on it first? Did, anything prevent you from discovering psychoanalysis?", flaunting a preoccupation with incest, anality, and just about everything else the Viennese bourgeoisie lacked a penchant...
...Samuel Beckett's style. But director Kaplan perhaps tips the scales too heavily toward the absurd tradition. The stark stage, the sparse furniture are all there, and rightly so. But the Shakespearean tradition is just as important: Stoppard includes sizable chunks from Hamlet, and his own words show a penchant for language tricks...
...Nigerians together and they will form three political parties: the first two so that they can both be leaders and the third as a vehicle for trying to resolve their differences. Nigerians enjoy telling that story about their penchant for politics. On a continent where military dictatorships and one-party governments are the rule, it is a refreshing reminder that black Africa's wealthiest and most populous (90 million) nation opted for a return to democracy four years...