Word: gluttonous
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Although most of the pieces in the first act recount the woes of glutton, Faithfull shows neither regret nor bitterness. She is assertive and fearless, especially in the show's title song in a deadly serious tone, her voice grows dark and low as the song becomes a fiendish incitement rather than a cautionary word of advice. For this number, she naturally lit her first and only cigarette of the performance, hardly drawing...
...last age of innocence. The lovers Pocahontas (voiced by Irene Bedard) and John Smith are from a gentler, more serious movie era; and so, to its credit, is this film. The picture has its light moments and patentedly adorable characters, notably Meeko the raccoon, a most fastidious glutton with a lot of personality. But Pocahontas lacks the menagerie of cuties that filled The Little Mermaid and The Lion King, and the absence must be intentional. For this is an animated film for adults who have a touch of the moony adolescent in them. The movie passionately argues that...
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...