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...These avid customers dine at II Panino as many as six times a week for dinner, and drop by for lunch...
...prayer breakfast during the Republican Convention is revving up its final hallelujahs as Mary Lou Retton burbles her introduction of President Bush. Thousands of miles away, in his aerie on the Mediterranean, an avid CNN watcher is taking in the action and talking back to his TV set. Of the ex- gymnast, he predicts, "She'll be running for office very soon." The President, as usual, quotes a letter, this one from a child named Joy Vaughn. "What if her name were Joy Previn?" asks the viewer sarcastically. One of the pols plugs voluntary prayer in schools. "Well...
...post- literate, polyvinyl civilization." Dino was what we wanted and deserved. With the cool of a crooner and the leer of a rocker, he straddled two pop eras. He took the styles others created and filtered them, through the screen door of his nonchalance, for a Middle America avid...
That dourness seems to change as soon as Popov, 21, hits the water. "While I'm swimming, I sing songs in my mind," he says. His career is following an upbeat tune. An avid admirer of Mark Spitz, the Russian youth won the Soviet junior championship as a backstroker at 14. Since 1990, when his coach persuaded him to switch to freestyle, he has been nearly unbeatable. He has defeated his main rival, Matt Biondi, in their last six meetings. "At first I thought that he didn't take me seriously," says the younger swimmer. But Biondi takes him seriously...
...this compact and rewarding show makes clear, was in the act of drawing. By comparison with his preparatory drawings, Guercino's final paintings are quite often labored and stodgy. It is the drawings that contain his finest and most spontaneously registered perceptions, and fortunately many survive. George III, an avid collector, acquired nearly 350 of them, of which 60 are in the Drawing Center's show, and this can be only a fraction of the stream of sketches and preliminary studies, caricatures and genre scenes that flowed from Guercino's hand...