Word: avidity
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...naked now and then. According to the results, however, the Fundamentalists among us are doing it too. Even in well-kept Republican homes in the suburbs, in bedrooms full of Early American gewgaws and praying-hands plaques and the memoirs of Quayle on the bedside table, there is an avid, ongoing interest...
...judgment on this one. Responses to jury call notices in the Los Angeles area have risen by 8% since the Simpson case erupted. One city council member reports being cornered at the gym by would-be jurors. From as far away as Minnesota and Florida, people eager -- avid! -- to do their official duty have been phoning the offices of Judge Lance Ito and District Attorney Gil Garcetti. That out-of-staters are ineligible is no barrier to their civic-mindedness...
...still on the surreal side, and not just in the carnage that almost earned the picture an NC-17 rating (see box). NBK is also a blanket indictment of the American family (breeders of abuse), the justice system (sadistic and incompetent) and the avid media that find in tabloid crime the no-brain modern equivalent of Greek tragedy. And intentionally or not, NBK romanticizes its hero and heroine, because they are smarter and sexier than their pursuers. As the kid in the movie's fake news footage says, "If I was a mass murderer, I'd be Mickey and Mallory...
...Town News is not necessarily where Cambridge residents (Cantabridgians) go to buy foreign newspapers. Or anything with words, usually. Those aren't avid readers you see around the corner of the aisle...
...Stephen Breyer is not only a husband and father of three. He is a gourmet cook. He is a bird watcher, an avid reader, a student of philosophy and a speed typist." -- Senator Barbara Boxer (D-Calif...