Word: avidity
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Like the production as a whole, Olivier makes no easy appeal to the audience's sympathies, but holds to an avid, harshly funny portrayal of the cruelty of human justice and the bitter ironies of human mercy. At the end of Shakespeare's text, Jessica and the merchant, the two characters whose triumphs have been bought at the cost of Shylock's downfall, pause alone and silently onstage before the final curtain. The moment apparently is intended by Director Miller to evoke Shylock, and it works. Such is the flinty power of Olivier's unorthodox performance...
Midfielder Paul Bloom was one of the more avid supporters of cancellation. "I will be spending virtually all of my time on the strike." Bloom said last week. "Things are urgent enough to discontinue sports...
Ordinarily, the avid move-goer would have to go to Washington Street in Boston to catch films like Thar She Blows and The Lustful Turk, but Peter A. Jaszi, titles producer for the theatre, said yesterday that these movies belong in Cambridge...
Except for an avid interest in major-league baseball and professional football, the judge's life seems devoted solely to his court duties and his family, which includes three grown daughters. Although the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals is headquartered in St. Louis, for most of the year Blackmun prefers to work on his cases in the relative serenity of Rochester, Minn., where he has lived since becoming the chief counsel of the Mayo Clinic in 1950. (He resigned in 1959.) An FBI agent confided to Blackmun's lively wife, Dorothy, that the only criticism they could turn...
...particularly disastrous Laugh-In. The choppiness of the action could be excused as it precludes a continuous plot-line, which is also absent in the book. But the minimal transitions that are attempted lack the barest suggestion of originality. It just so happens, for instance, that Grand is an avid TV-watcher, and his propensity to change channels lets Southern smuggle in random bits about a disguised puma that eats its competition at a silk-stocking New York dog show and two gnarled heavyweight contenders who prance to the center of the ring, embrace, and writhe down to the canvas...