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Pace your stamina for the second floor’s excellent Galleria Sabauda (Savoy Gallery), with an important collection of Italian and European art, also due to the Savoys’ penchant for collecting.
The upstart did not just so much challenge Cosby as envelop it: In perhaps the most sustained of the winking pop-culture references for which it has become famous (and on which it came to depend rather too heavily as time went on), The Simpsons soon featured an avuncular African-American physician with a penchant for multicolored sweaters.
What is most striking about The Life of Nelson A. Rockefeller: Worlds to Conquer 1908-1958 (the first of a projected two volumes), though, is that this duality--the push to achieve wed to a penchant for flamboyant failure; the ability to win a passionate following yet alienate the people who could keep him in power--was evident well before he thought about running for public office.
Having read David Brock's essay in the July Esquire , I am aware of his penchant for the witless smear.
In "The Accidental Theorist," Paul Krugman demonstrates his penchant for naive economic analogies, ranging all the way back to the classical argument for free trade that involved wine- and cheese-producing economies.