Word: avidly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Borrowed Tricks. Hackman is a sort of blue-collar actor, slightly embarrassed about art but avid about craft. For his Oscar-winning role as the obsessive, foul-mouthed Popeye Doyle, he served an apprenticeship in Harlem with Eddie Egan, the real-life detective on whose exploits The French Connection was based. "It was scary as hell," Hackman says. "We'd burst into a crowded bar, and Egan would put on a drill instructor's voice, flat and unemotional, and yet authoritative. If anyone talked back, his voice would go a pitch higher. He always won." In the film...
...Burt Shevelove's and Larry Gelbart's free adaptation of Plautus' plays convulsed playgoers for 964 performances. At that time Zero Mostel pranced onstage like an elephant with a hotfoot in the star ring role of Pseudolus, a slave with a passion for freedom as avid as that of all 1 3 original colonies. He was gloriously funny, and in this revival of A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Fo rum, Phil Silvers is every wit his equal...
Moreover, in spite of any general trend toward a broadening audience for Kubrick or Vonnegut, Fantasy and Science Fiction is permeated by a sense of its special readership. The editorial tone seems directed toward a circle as avid as the readers of pulp mystery magazines and as semi-expert as the clientele of Popular Mechanics. A typical introduction to one of the stories might read: "Now here's a story by an old friend of F& SF readers, one of the best young writers in the field. We think it's a story you're really going to like...
COMMENTING ON the announcement of Lecturer Judith N. Shklar's appointment to a professorship in Government next summer, one of her former students--and an avid admirer--remarked that he "was surprised when I found out that she got tenure." Rampant sexism, a retreat from earlier admiration, commentary on the university's controversial hiring and firing policies? Not quite. Knowing Dr. Shklar held a tenured position. In his eyes any perusal of her impressive record indicated the qualifications of at least a full professor, if not a demi-goddess, as she is viewed by some of her more devoted disciples...
...radios each Sunday night to hear the familiar, high-pitched voice announce above the urgent sound of a telegraph key: "Good evening, Mr. and Mrs. North America and all the ships at sea. Let's go to press!" No one, save perhaps President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, an avid listener and confidant, was safe from the Winchell shaft. He railed against "Hitlerooting" U.S. Senators, accused Defense Secretary James Forrestal of plotting a Wall Street dictatorship. Once, when a lengthy study of Winchell in The New Yorker reported that "41.2% of the columnist's items are completely inaccurate," he blasted...