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...Star Wars" in 1980 was the first movie I remember seeing in a movie theater and, since that was before the age of video, possibly the first movie I ever saw. Thus, for me, as for so many others my age, George Lucas' film began a life of avid movie-going...
Zimmerman never played a sport while an undergraduate, choosing instead to sing with the Harvard Glee Club and study German. But Zimmerman's grandson, Gary E. Zimmerman '99, said his grandfather was still an avid...
...spare time, Roemer was an avid birdwatcher who sighted 1,600 birds over 12 years. Snodgrass also remembered his friend's passion for the Red Sox, classical music and endless conversation...
Like every other aspect of this film, The cinematography is perfect, adapted to the moods of each scene. The camera follows court conversations with avid interest, breathlessly tallying the putdowns and comebacks. Hand-held, it wavers gently during a love scene, in accordance with the tenderness of the moment. It also plunges through fields and over water for a flight to the countryside. Or it remains breathlessly still and grave for a duel, one of the sober possible endings to this game...
...seats as a referendum on national policy; former House Speaker Tip O'Neill's maxim that "all politics is local" has rarely been so widely flouted. Democrats pleaded with voters to repudiate the so-called revolution of O'Neill's successor twice removed, Newt Gingrich, whom they pictured as avid to gut all programs of government help to the poor and middle class and use the savings for tax cuts that would make the rich still more wealthy. Gingrich himself estimates that 75,000 Democratic ads around the country attacked him by name, a figure that seems reasonable to reporters...