Word: buffs
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Then last week came the murder of 22-year-old Brian Watkins, an avid tennis buff from Provo, Utah, on a subway platform in midtown Manhattan. Over the years, his family frequently made a pilgrimage to watch the U.S. Open tennis tournament in Queens. En route to dinner at Tavern on the Green, a popular tourist attraction, the family was attacked by a group of eight black and Hispanic youths. After one of the gang cut open his father's pocket to get at his money and punched his mother in the face, Brian jumped to his parents' defense...
BILL COSBY: WHERE YOU LAY YOUR HEAD (Verve). Jazz buff and drummer manque, the Cos directs an assortment of talented sidemen in five numbers written by Cosby and his longtime musical collaborator, Stu Gardner. The material is mainstream, mostly danceable, occasionally overcalculated -- sounding more like a jazz score than the real thing. This is the first in a projected series of Cosby-produced jazz recordings. Give the man B for a good beginning...
...traded in his old technical pens for the zip and click of an electronic mouse and a computer screen. To create or alter an illustration or to add color, he simply taps commands into the keyboards of his sophisticated Macintosh and IBM machines. Says Lertola, a science-fiction buff: "With so many computers, I sometimes feel as if I'm operating a spaceship...
...nicely poised, sometimes ironic balance of twin protagonists at play in a high-stakes game of blindman's buff gives The Hunt for Red October solid dramatic tension. Still, this obviously could have been a movie in which a lot of people stood around talking in tight spaces; in other words, a movie that refused to move. But screenwriters Larry Ferguson and Donald Stewart do not overexplain (or underexplain) either its technology or the intricacies of its far-darting plot. We know all we need to know to keep our bearings and not a monosyllable more. And director John McTiernan...
...Yankee-Hater, which is just that, was published in 1981. He is / now editing a book on Lawrence Park, the turn-of-the-century artists' colony in Bronxville, N.Y., where he grew up and lives today. Our renaissance lawyer is also an avid bird watcher, gardener, art buff and rock-'n'-roll aficionado: his raunchy rendition of Blue Christmas, Elvis-style, is the highlight of the law department's annual lunch...