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...basically interested in space since I was six," Hoffman says. "Rockets were the neatest things around." He recalls having a avid interest in science fiction, and being fascinated by the stars when he visited the planetarium or peered through his father's telescope...
...pictured a frail old woman walking to her mailbox, finding it empty and staring at the camera in despair, while a voice accused Bentsen's opponent James Collins of plotting to wreck Social Security. Though Collins once advocated making Social Security voluntary, he now insists that he is avid to preserve the system. In Pennsylvania, Democrat Peter Kostmayer ran ads showing a picture of Republican James Coyne on a cookie that was being crushed by a pair of giant hands, while the voice-over charged Coyne with selling out to "special interests." The ad concluded: "That...
Although the President's role here was one of referee, it is clear that he was an avid spectator as well. He tells of how Begin and Sadat squared off on the third day of talks...
...from Neiman-Marcus) would do nicely, but a "full-length sweep of splendor" made of Russian snow lynx bellies ($125,000, from Sakowitz) is more tasteful if less carefree. To stay svelte, anyone would love Heartmate, an electronically controlled aerobic exercise bicycle ($4,000, from Abercrombie & Fitch). The avid pedaler can listen to music, AMFM, or view television on the machine's console, while monitoring digital read-outs of mileage, heart rate, calorie expenditure and countdown timing...
...Avid Russian readers used to strip Soviet bookshops of a new novel by Vasili Aksyonov as if they were stocking up on candles before a storm. A first printing of 100,000 copies would vanish from the stores within 48 hours, and any magazine containing an Aksyonov short story, like his celebrated Halfway to the Moon, could count on the immediate sellout of a 2 million-copy press run. No other prose writer of the post-Stalin generation commanded such an impassioned following; no other offered a more radical departure from the standard Socialist Realist fare. His nonconformity came naturally...