Word: relished
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Excellent acting renders these unusual characters believable. Maura, who starred in "Women on the Verge," plays the transsexual Tina with relish. Maura is an actress who, as Almodovar has written, "enlarges in front of the camera." With her wide-eyed insouciance, she looks like the girl-(or former boy)-next-door, whether she's singing a hymn at the altar, snorting a line of coke or vaulting over a bar counter. Banderas (of "Mambo Kings" and "Truth or Dare") is hilarious as the appealingly deranged fan, and Poncelas convincingly portrays the oddly down-to-earth avant-garde director...
...only another First Lady can know what it is like to have one's every movement picked apart, and with such relish. One day during a rare public appearance at the dedication of the John F. Kennedy Park at Harvard in 1987, Mrs. Onassis was pulled aside by Kitty Dukakis, who was seeking some guidance. As the two chain-smoked in a private room, the only thing Mrs. Onassis could tell her for sure was that she would have to give up her beloved cigarettes...
Both are also examples--and potential victims--of Americans' obsession with heroes. We aren't all faster than a speeding bullet, so we set up idol figures to be our proxies. Then, with the relish of Greek tragedians, we watch them topple...
Although Harvard crushed Princeton 8-1 last year in Cambridge, Coach Ronn Tomassoni does not relish the task of playing Princeton on foreign...
...Consumer Bankers Association, a national group of retail banks. "If you squeeze out the risk factor, you also squeeze out a number of debatable lending opportunities. Only people with perfect records will then get the upper hand. But few of us have perfect records." Nor do banks relish the thought of having federal examiners constantly looking over their shoulder. "When you're sitting here with regulators who are coming down and telling you to downgrade everything that isn't lily white, you have a problem," says Don McWhorter, president of Ohio- based Banc...