Word: afficianado
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...avid moviegoer and a ballet and symphony afficianado, Coatsworth has little leisure time because he is currently president of the American Historical Association, a post he calls a "one-year sentence...
...mediocore as Ozma and as flat-out irritating as Bullhead. Obviously I'm not a fan. But in fairness to Melvins followers (who call themselves not "Melvins Army," but "The Melvins Army"), I don't really like Black Sabbath much either. However, I suspect that even a grunge music afficianado would find Melvins' new release, Houdini, inescapably trite and monotonous...
...some bits and pieces of the private Adam Cohen emerge in conversations with him and with his roommates. For instance, Cohen is a classical music afficianado, enjoying what Greenwald calls "awful Baroque music"--particularly "a truly horrible piece of music" by Rameau called "The Chicken...
...when I turned 12, the magic failed. Peter Tchaikovsky's score failed to captivate--I found musical intoxication impossible without a beat--and sitting in the audience, I felt more like a babysitter than a dance afficianado. Eight years passed since I had last seen the curtain rise on a snowy night in Nuremburg and watched a petticoated-child journey through the land of the Sugar Plum Fairy. And suddenly, this Christmas I found myself listening to Tchaikovsky's tale and thinking of how long it had been since dolls and tutus. I wanted to prove to myself that magic...
...afficianado's knowledge of surfing hazards and an appreciation of the expert's skill and grace. His narration proceeds smoothly; he intersperses cracks about particularly bad wipeouts with wise asides about air and water temperatures, the incline of the continental shelves, and the price of gas in Ghana...
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