Word: enthusiast
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...help their aged relatives battle anxiety by keeping in close touch, asking pointed questions and getting help for them if necessary. Lebow suggests families buy greeting cards and send one a week to aging relatives, and encourage them to try e-mail (my mother has become an e-mail enthusiast). And the conversations about Sept. 11 can be rewarding for young and old: many people of the WW II generation report feeling that their life experiences are more relevant than ever in our post-9/11 world. Kids and grandkids are are bound to benefit from stories told by older...
...found quite a following here at Harvard. In the past week, many students have taken a break from their normal study routines to head out and enjoy the new movie Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone. Tim B. Lautz ’02, a Harry Potter enthusiast who saw the movie at 9:30 a.m. on opening day and has since viewed it a second time, opines, “the movie did as good a job adapting the material as possible, although the books cannot be matched. There is just a lot of stuff that...
...desire to share the magic of this creativity?especially with his littlest fans?led to Miyazaki's latest production: the Studio Ghibli Museum. Here the other side of Miyazaki is on full display: the childlike enthusiast, bursting with inventiveness. The multicolored building pokes out like the stub of a rainbow from a wooded corner of a vast Tokyo park. A towering metal sculpture of a robot character from his film Castle in the Sky stands sentry. Inside, a handcrafted fan whirs like an airplane propeller from the glass ceiling of a four-story atrium. Elf-size doors lead to secret...
...Kong, Cambridge: In a last-minute desperate attempt, maritime enthusiast Craig B. Phillips made one last jibe. “Hey Baby? You must be tired ‘cuz you been racing through my mind all day. Racing your boat, that...
...easiest thing to find online. "Movies are my passion," writes Lisa Skrzyniarz, 32, on her crazy4cinema.com site, which registered an imposing 40,000 hits one month last year. "I love all kinds, as long as it?s good." Like most web critics, she is at heart an enthusiast, and her site is her hobby. Skrzyniarz is no terror of Tinseltown; she has kind, if not poetic, things to say about all eight of the latest films on her site - and this in a summer when films liked "America?s Sweethearts" (which she gives 2-1/2 stars) and "Cats & Dogs...