Word: avidity
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...almost 210 years, the U.S. has muddled along without an official poet laureate. This lack did not noticeably hinder the work of such natives as Poe, Whitman, Dickinson, Eliot, Pound, Stevens, Frost and Robert Lowell. But it bothered Hawaiian Senator Spark Matsunaga, an avid reader and sometimes writer of poems, including one called Ode to a Traffic Light ("Impartial traffic cop/ That blushingly speeding cars do stop...
When it comes to the size of his portions, the avid French gourmet usually avoids the gargantuan in favor of the petit. The merest taste of his favorite cuisine, he reasons, ought to be sufficient. No more. Last week French chefs banded together to challenge the world record for the longest buffet. The result of their labors: an 846-ft. table filled with an appetizing array of food. The creation was unveiled during a Mardi Gras celebration at the World Tourism and Travel Show in Paris and offered dishes representing all the departments of France, including the Indian Ocean island...
...course, men also make mistakes. Tax Lawyer Chuck Levy, 47, 2 1/2 years ago spent $275 for a rowing machine. An avid runner, he thought it would help keep him in shape. It also recalled his glory days as a member of a college crew. He soon discovered that the workouts were not as efficient as running. The machine is now collecting dust in the study of his Chevy Chase, Md., home...
...hits may be recent theatrical hits (Rambo just set a record with a first-day order of 427,000 sales) or moldering musicals (last year the 1954 Bing Crosby film White Christmas sold more than 250,000 units). And surveys have found that many VCR owners are more avid moviegoers after their purchase than before. Renting cassettes opens them up to the universe of films, turns them into fans eager for the next new picture...
...story began in 1977. Aryeh, an avid collector of Russian artifacts who had emigrated from Iran to the U.S., owned some 100 of Faberge's plain enamel eggs, which were made for ordinary collectors and not monarchs. Hearing that an Imperial egg was being auctioned off by Christie's in Geneva, he asked his sister Shahnaz, who lived in Switzerland, to try to buy it. This particular egg was supposedly commissioned for the 300th anniversary of the Romanov dynasty in 1913 by Czarina Alexandra for her husband Nicholas II. It opens to reveal a tiny statue of Nicholas astride...