Word: avidity
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...American print media, addicted to celebrity and sensation, are anchorites compared to their avid brethren in Hong Kong. Fourteen local newspapers breathe down the necks of the S.A.R.?s movie, TV and music performers, sleuthing Nicholas Tse?s traffic citations, Maggie Cheung?s potential suitors and the cavorting of various pop-star Twins and Boy?z. Transcribing and translating all this for English-language HK hankerers is Saskatoon, Saskatchewan?s own Sanney Leung. With his ?staff of ten ... fingers,? Saint Sanney synopsizes the day?s gossip, provides links to HK news and reviews (including mine from TIME?s Asian edition...
...always bringing home the high-tech equipment of the day, such as a tape recorder and television set, long before most families owned them. And my beautiful, childlike mother had already instilled in me a belief in magic, feeding my love of fairy tales and storytelling. I was an avid reader of Hans Christian Andersen and the Brothers Grimm and comic books...
Bill explained to Eckersley that I was an avid five-year old baseball fan who had just lost his father and asked if perhaps Dennis would be willing to sign an autograph for me. Incredibly, Eckersley instead invited Bill to bring me to his home in Sudbury to meet him in person...
Sexual intercourse began/In nineteen sixty-three," Philip Larkin, the good, glum British poet famously, ironically wrote. You might argue with his date--in movies the sexual revolution came a little later--but not with his basic insight. Since then, though, under the camera's avid scrutiny, onscreen sex has become an activity restricted to movie stars who are young and buff, with the older folks left pretty much standing in the corner, all buttoned...
This site has everything imaginable for the avid traveler, from the highly practical to the gimmicky and all points in between. These $299 Bose headphones will block out the roar of jet engines and the screams of crying babies--with or without music...