Word: penchants
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...love or are reunited with an old one. It would be nice to describe this as a flimsy pretext for a batch of Simon gag lines, except that the gags are too lame even for Simon in a nostalgic haze. One character is a boorish Italian stud with a penchant for malapropisms (he calls Roman gladiators "gladiolas"), and the play's comic piece de resistance is, so help me, a bird's funeral. Simon, like Mamet, is content to trot out his characters two at a time for a series of unfulfilling, barely connected dialogues...
...background, looks like your parents' basement if you didn't have parents. And, like the new MTV, the station broadcasts live and focuses on music. Not everything the Canadian service does has been imported, however. MuchMusic features a wide-screen video booth, where young Canadians seem to have a penchant for exposing themselves...
...doesn't flinch at shouting through the phone at a reluctant informant. Hersh has had second thoughts about some of his sources. For his book The Samson Option, about Israel's nuclear-weapons program, he depended on Ari Ben-Menashe, a former Israeli intelligence officer with a penchant for intricate tales. But a story in the November Vanity Fair quotes Hersh as now saying that Ben-Menashe "lies like people breathe...
...world into which Wallace Stevens delves for a night is much stranger than anything Bond ever had to face: Russians (that's right, Russians), call girls, defense ministers, senior citizens with a penchant for S & M and Octopussy (well, not really...
Norfleet's anthropological eye shows through in her penchant for natural, as well as human classifications. In her "Manscapes with Beasts" series, Norfleet inverts the idea of the traditional landscape and documents animals in various more-or-less human environments (or "Manscapes...