Word: afficionado
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...gaining a reputation as one of the best theaters in Boston because of the work of Artistic Director Robert Brustein, said George Gross, a friend of the company and self-claimed theater afficionado. In general Brustein puts on a few classic works but mostly different types of drama, he said...
IMAGINE HOW pleased a sports car afficionado would be if British Leyland brought back one of those wonderful spoke a wheeled MG's and included better mileage to boot Similar ecstasy has arrived for any person who cares a wit about baseball in the form of a revised edition of Lawrence Ritter's The Glory of Their Times. Moreover, the best book ever written about the grand old game also appeals as a vivid depiction of a fascinating slice of American culture...
...majority couldn't convince are at this moment marching to the south, toward the marsh that lies across the once-again-rebuilt bridge. For some, this is a sentimental journey--the south marsh saw the heaviest action in the battle of Seabrook/1979, "The tide adds a different dimension," one afficionado says...