Word: avidity
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...heroines of Breillat's best films are younger than the Baise-moi babes: girls trying to fathom sex and romance while in the sights of some very avid men. Fat Girl, Breillat's latest and best work, divides the heroine in two: Elena (Roxane Mesquida), a pretty 15-year-old who already knows her aphrodisiac effect on men, and her sister Anais (Anais Reboux)--fat, sullen and full of resentful love for the girl who invites, into the bedroom they share, a horny rich kid for a night of extended erotic negotiation...
...microchip industry worldwide is mired in a slump, with prices falling and many factories closing. But Chang, chairman of Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co., posted third-quarter earnings that were better than expected. He believes the rebound has begun, and he announced a $20 billion expansion. Chang, 70, an avid contract-bridge player educated at Stanford and MIT, founded TSMC in 1987 and has made it the industry leader...
Matthew L. Butler, ’04, an avid figure skating buff, said he is also a little concerned that some well-known skaters may not make it to this year?...
Surely enough, cultural critics have trumpeted the detrimental impact of the cell phone on society. Are we not disingenuous hedons, appropriating a gadget with the pretext of boosting efficiency, when in fact we use that technology for useless chit-chat? Even the most avid cell phone apologists concede that this is a rhetorical question. Of course cell phones are mostly frivolous and only occasionally useful. Ultimately, users argue, the cell phone is a benign force, and on the rare occasion that it seems absolutely necessary (“Where are you, I’m outside Mather?...
Groton alumni overwhelmingly say the school was picked upon by the press, avid for a chance to portray expensive, exclusive schools as somehow corrupt...