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Being the glutton for punishment that I am, I frequently read David B. Lat's bi-monthly columns...
Being the glutton for punishment that I am, I frequently enter into political discussions with fellow Harvard students. when I first arrived here as a wide-eyed first-year, I was amazed by these conversations. What a high level of intellectual discourse...
Gerard Depardieu, France's best and best-known actor, is a glutton for adventure. He eats with two hands, acts with both fists. Onscreen he radiates wild energy, acting from his capacious gut, whispering or raging as the role allows and the moment demands. He embodies the primal male caged in modern society, ever raising the ante on his own anarchic instincts. To call him a bear of a man is to give bears too much credit; they have not his strut, his growl, his formidable charisma. It is said that when French bears see a particularly imposing member...
...glutton for punishment? Perhaps so. I took more challenging and more interesting courses, and I wound up having to explain to my parents why my departmental GPA was almost two points lower than my overall GPA. Just the though of having to run through all those arguments once again is somewhat off-putting, which is precisely what Government had in mind when it chose to initiate its honors GPA requirement...
Harry, newly arrived in the U.S. and married to the American-born Sorella, would like to thank his benefactor. But Rose, a glutton for publicity in all other aspects, will not see Harry or acknowledge his letters. And how does the narrator know all this? Through the confidences of Sorella, immensely fat ("She was biologically dramatized in waves and scrolls of tissue") and enormously dedicated ("a tiger wife") to the well-being of her husband. Harry eventually gives up hope of thanking Rose, but his spouse does...