Word: avidity
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...private law practice; his firm has offices in Dallas and Washington. Strauss, who is already wealthy, liked to crack that he "looked forward to getting rich-a poor Jewish kid from West Texas learns to survive." Strauss made his fortune in law, banking and television stations. Though not an avid swimmer, Strauss built a large pool at his luxurious Dallas home so that he could look out and, as he puts it, say to himself: "Strauss, you are a rich sumbitch...
...have often embraced Hitlerian helmets and swastikas. All such artifacts are readily available through mail-order import houses, as well as some gun and specialty shops, and the catalogues are advertised in various gun and hunting magazines. Porn paperbacks like Gestapo Prison Brothel and Bitch of Buchenwald have their avid readers...
...Allen's five-page description of the effects of the Big Wind on Fire Island won't satisfy even the most avid storm-lovers, then it's doubtful that his book will do much for a general audience. Not many Americans know how to appreciate a good hurricane, and they aren't likely to take time out to read about even the biggest one of all. Which is, of course, their loss. A Wind to Shake the World is a fine book, a wonderful source of stories to sit around and tell when livid storm clouds come steaming across...
...with other politicos at Washington's all-male Burning Tree golf club. Ford belted a drive further than Arnold Palmer at the opening ceremonies of the World Gold Hall of Fame and teamed with Jack Nicklaus in the Jackie Geason pro-am. Former presidents Nixon and Eisenhower were also avid golfers while in the oval office. The switch from gold to fishing in the White House signals a deep-rooted transition in the national temperament. The country is already heading in more new directions than were perceived by political forecasters, who missed this noteworthy occurrence in the symbolic sphere...
...Rogers is not a pretty thing. It is a volcano of hatred that relieves itself in violent sexual expression. In most histo-romances, the climax is the kiss, but Rogers realistically noted that a new mass market for pornography exists -and that vast numbers of respectable women would become avid customers if only they did not have to admit that what they were purchasing was porn. So R.R. perfected the soft-edge sex scene in which, just as the worst is about to happen, all the heavy breathing seems to steam the reader's glasses and the details fade...