Word: fanaticism
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Monti got her start on her road to Lavietes Pavilion when her father, a basketball fanatic, encouraged her to take up the sport. She did but was hesitant to admit her left-handedness and risk being labeled as “different,” so she learned to play...
“Idealism, to me, means working for the good of the people around you, rather than for your own good. You can’t be idealistic all on your own. I would either fossilize or become a fanatic,” he said.
A few minutes later, I found out what was wrong: a pair of Canadian figure skaters had been cheated out of a gold medal by dicey judging. In other words, no one had died--a huge relief. But try telling that to my Canadian mother-in-law. She called every...
Though Butler has been a figure skating fanatic since 1994, he did not even start to learn to skate until last fall. He took lessons through the Harvard Figure Skating Club and practiced every day at 7 a.m. at the Brighton Hockey Center. He is now a teacher with ?...
But the trend has spread beyond the beauty-fanatic media world. Patty Reimerdes, 50, a divorced mother of two from Queens, N.Y., had her first Botox procedure last week and pronounces herself pleased. Reimerdes says she doesn't mind being 50: "I just don't want to look 50." And...