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Cuban has usually managed to get to the economics ever since his boyhood in Mount Lebanon, Pa., a Pittsburgh suburb, where his father was a car upholsterer. An avid basketball player, Cuban wanted a fancy pair of Puma sneakers, but his dad wouldn't pay. So Cuban, then 12, sold garbage bags door to door to raise the cash. He was a box boy at the local grocer and worked the meat slicer at a deli and at the canteen at a summer camp. To pay his way through Indiana University, he gave disco-dancing lessons, rented the Bloomington National...
That would have been the end of it if Starobin’s boyfriend, “an avid reader,” hadn’t read Stephen King’s Desperation and left it lying around their apartment waiting to be thrown away. Starobin picked it up and her spirits plummeted...
After a quick glance around he cabin, Glamourpuss has spotted first character: the Avid Book-Reader. Middle-aged woman with a tattered copy of something long. Though flight time is knocking at the door of infinity, Avid Book-Reader never really advances in her reading. The yellowed pages of said book remain frozen though she’s even got it open during snack time and the in flight movie. (No, Avid Book-Reader does not enjoy the TNT air-network premier of Bound and Gagged: the Life and Times of Harry Houdini). Avid Book-Reader hates to be disturbed...
...behind the Avid Book-Reader sits the silver haired Business Man. Wire rimed glasses, bloody Mary in the middle of the afternoon, cell phone and laptop. Business Man always asks for more peanuts. Crisp oxford shirt, paisley tie. Business Man talks loudly in the airport terminal, to his wife, to his secretary, to himself. Business Man reads Business Week or Fortune 500. Glamourpuss has never touched these publications and therefore has nothing in common with Business Man. Flights next to men such as these tend to seem twice as long as they actually are. Especially if Business Man falls asleep...
...angst. Established family’s teenaged girl eyes Galmourpuss’ Seventeen magazine. Grrr…. this two-paged ‘Are You Way Too Jealous?’ quiz is not communal property, missy. Established Family will have ten hours of tension if mom is an Avid Book-Reader and dad is a Business Man. They’ve got nothing to talk about and make the stewardesses nervous...