Word: avidity
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Florence Michel and her boyfriend were looking forward to a night out at the movies, and perhaps hoping that the film they were going to see would spark a debate. Michel, a 45-year-old Parisian teacher and avid film buff, takes in up to three movies a week and prefers the kind of challenging art-house fare that can be enjoyed as much during the discussion afterward as in the theater. She had chosen Polissons et Galipettes, a compilation of vintage French blue movies. Art or pornography? That's a question neither Michel nor her boyfriend had the opportunity...
...turned on his Canon inkjet printer and, using meat-flavored inks, printed out an illustration of a raccoon on edible starch paper. He stewed the meat with juniper, placed the paper on top and dubbed the tasty entrée "road kill," much to the delight of his guest, an avid hunter. All in an evening's work at Moto, where customers are starting to catch on that whimsy is the chef's specialty. "We're dinner and a movie, all wrapped up in one," Cantu says...
...up to applaud at the end of a movie? It shouldn't be, not when virtually all the other audience members have already leaped to their feet. Yet Tom Freston's leg-stretch after last month's Sundance Film Festival screening of Hustle & Flow was hot dish to an avid press corps. You would have thought he was Brad and Jen, together again...
...after a very tall and very heavy file cabinet toppled over onto her back. The freak accident damaged her spinal cord, leaving her with a constant, gnawing pressure in her lower back. "If I sit for very long, I'm in excruciating pain," she says. Once an avid tennis player, world traveler and amateur pilot, Rickhoff, who is in her 50s, was not only grounded, but she also became almost a prisoner in her home, unable to drive more than a short distance, unable to go anywhere without toting special "tush cush" pillows...
Besides enjoying the energy of teenagers, these couples savor the foreign flavor their guests bring. Many of the couples are avid travelers who have experienced kindness abroad. As hosts, they feel they're making a small contribution to international understanding. Some, notes Northern Wisconsin AFS Intercultural Programs USA coordinator Amy Myers, were exchange students with the agency (formerly American Field Service) in the 1960s, and feel that they finally have time and space to put up a student...