Word: avidity
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...means a bar to be avoided entirely, but to be visited less frequently. It is an ideal sports bar to enjoy Sunday football and March Madness. With a good size crowd, but ample seating, food and beer, the Grille is equipped to provide a great atmosphere for avid sports fans...
...Showgirls opened last week on 1,388 screens. Though many newspapers typically do not run ads for NC-17 films, only a few (including the major dailies in Oklahoma City and Fort Worth, Texas) refused to carry the Showgirls pitches. United Artists' high box-office hopes were stoked by avid interest in a teaser cassette in video stores, and by a million visitors a day to the Showgirls Website...
...career of a budding politician (moderate to rabid Republican, we're guessing). But what usually comes across is the falseness, not of the contestants forced to reach for cheerful profundity, but of the format. Says humorist Harry Shearer, host of the syndicated weekly radio treasure Le Show and an avid trawler in the backwaters of pop culture: "I believe that if the serious guys on television had to discuss current affairs the way Miss America contestants do--gussied up in evening wear while an orchestra plays Isn't She Lovely?, and showing us their backsides after they finish...
Clark grew up in Washington state and Utah. A devout Mormon, Clark is an avid golfer, jogs regularly and is a scoutmaster of his son's troop.Crimson File PhotoFormer Dean of the Business School JOHN H. MCARTHUR and Rudenstine...
...support Fried's avid defense of free speech, but his libertarianism extends to a degree favored most by arch-conservatives. Fried's support of capital punishment also makes us queasy. Weld called Fried "ballast to the right" and "a Scalia on the court." If there's anything we don't need it's another Justice Antonin Scalia, whose teaming with Justice Clarence Thomas has given a far-right tinge to Supreme Court opinions of late...