Word: avidly
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Melbourne retirement village, garnered his Claymation creator a nod for Best Short Film (Animated) at next week's Academy Awards ceremony. Up against toon titans Pixar, Disney and Blue Sky, Elliot and his tragicomic creation, who endures Tourette's syndrome and testicular cancer before seizing the day as an avid animal liberationist and nudist, is perhaps the ultimate underdog. (Seven years ago, an Oscar went to a similarly off-kilter outsider - Shine's Geoffrey Rush, whose presence as Harvie Krumpet's narrator lends the film an added poignancy.) "I deal with characters who are different," says Elliot...
...closest equivalent, and direct inspiration in the Sunday New York Times - specifically in its magazine and its Arts and Leisure section, with essayish reports on social trends and features on and criticism of music, film and art. But the Times, like most journalistic enterprises these days, is avid to get younger; ?CBS SM? is content to be late middle-age (though it keeps in excellent shape). I don?t mean to shove this notion in the show?s face, but ?CBS SM? is a newsmagazine show for alter-kockers...
Desk: Jones appears to be an avid reader. Her bookshelf includes Al Franken’s recent Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them, Beginners’ Swedish, and a collection of Steven Pinker books. Kauble happens upon a ball of yarn. “Oh, she’s a knitter!” he exclaims. Upon further exploration, more balls of yarn emerge. “She’s obviously going all out on this—she’s got three balls of this shit! She must be making a whole wardrobe...
...theater is a welcome addition to the neighborhood according to Jinny Nathans, president of the Harvard Square Defense Fund, who has been an avid supporter of the project...
...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...