Word: enthusiast
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Indeed, the variety of sports offered here is tremendous. From tackle football to road runs to fencing, there are activities for the frustrated high school soccer star as well as the French Lit enthusiast who wants to know what the sword work in The Three Musketeers is all about...
...instance, 40 sculptures, 50 drawings and 50 photographs that have never been exhibited or reproduced before. There is also a new bronze cast of Rodin's climactic work, The Gates of Hell, commissioned by a foundation set up by the artist's most obsessed American enthusiast, the collector B. Gerald Cantor; and the Gates can now be seen in the context of other, related Rodins for the first time since its plaster was exhibited...
...groupie." When he was a teenager, he built and broadcasted from a low-power radio station in his home. Later he worked for a number of commercial radio stations and served as a freelance news cameraman for the city's WSB-TV. But since June 4, the news enthusiast has found himself too close to the headlines. Beginning that morning-when Williams was released from local FBI headquarters after hours of questioning about the deaths of 28 black Atlanta youths-he was hotly pursued by an army of reporters, photographers and TV cameramen. He has been described repeatedly...
...theater enthusiast from abroad, it often seems that there is far less in London to try the patience and a lot more to be generous about. In the West End -London's theatrical main stem and mainstream-Tom Courtenay and Freddie Jones are making their way deftly through an adept and affectionate comedy called The Dresser, concerning the trials of a third-rate classical actor on a perpetual tour of the provinces. Practically next door is a new Alan Ayckbourn roundelay called Taking Steps, an alternately hilarious and melancholy meditation on adulteries among the middle classes. The West...
...would be hard for any but the most committed Gainsborough enthusiast (and they exist) to rank him equal to those two pillars of English vision, John Constable and J.M.W. Turner. He did not have Constable's deep, poetic curiosity about the facts of landscape; still less did he rise to Turner's heights of sublimity or audacity of color. But both painters admired him. "Soothing, tender and affecting," Constable called Gainsborough's landscapes. "His object was to deliver a fine sentiment, and he has fully accomplished it ... The stillness of noon, the depths of twilight...