Word: avidity
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...that Loch Ness was ever linked to the sea, that there is hardly enough food in the loch to support such leviathans and that in any case, there would have to be at least 20 animals in a breeding herd-too many for the imaginations of even the most avid monster theorists...
...sign of the general air of affluence: Neiman-Marcus, avid to appear as the champion of the most conspicuous consumption imaginable, includes in its Christmas catalogue an offering extraordinary even by its standards. It will sell plaster dummies priced at $3,000 each, with a limit of two to a customer; the buyer must lie down for half an hour while a complete plaster mold is made of his face and body, and store men record him laughing and saying yes (or crying and saying no) on a tape that is inserted into the dummy. What consumers can do with...
...society to criticize. Certainly the most powerful image in the show is the massive figure of a man clothed in black leather struggling to free himself from the belts and zippers that contain him everywhere. Perhaps it can be interpreted as a commentary on repression or even some avid libber's dream of a future society in which men's mouths and genitals are zipped tight...
...What the hell is it?" Democratic Representative Lionel Van Deerlin, a longtime advocate of strong public TV, last week greeted CPB'S new boss with understandable sarcasm: "It seems about the same as selecting to coach the Washington Redskins someone who detests football. Let us hope for some avid on-the-job training." Other critics saw Loomis' appointment as a victory for the commercial stations, which presumably will now have less worry about popular public broadcasting shows stealing their Nielsen ratings-and their profits...
Jean Saint-Geours, 47, is professor of political economy at the Institut d'Études Politiques de Paris, where he lectures from his own 500-page textbook. He is the author of four novels and a nonfiction book, Long Live the Consumer Society. He is an avid cross-country runner, swimmer and tennis player, and a former member of the national championship rugby team. He speaks fluent English, Spanish, German and Italian, and reads Latin...