Word: gluttonous
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...glutton for punishment," Wagner explains...
...festival is one of the world's largest international gatherings. It is too large to satisfy the restless crowds and their hopes for great movies, big bucks or an invitation to the right party. And so there are three coexisting subfestivals. On the one hand, Cannes is a glutton's banquet of world cinema: some 350 movies unspooling at all hours in more than a dozen theaters. On the other, it is a showplace and marketplace for the industry's producers, distributors and exhibitors, from Hollywood moguls to Hong Kong porn merchants. And on the third hand...
...makes no Mailerian claims for the achievement. She heartily dislikes Tarnower, his "repilian" face, his dictatorial and unimaginative diet book and his Westchester, N.Y., house, which she finds "Japanoid" and "claustral." From testimony and private conversation, she concludes that the cardiologist was "a small-time emotional imperialist," and "a glutton for other people's vulnerabilities." She gleefully notes that he took a nightly laxative mixed with applesauce and that, according to the autopsy report, the deceased was overweight by the standards set forth in his book, The Complete Scarsdale Medical Diet...
...Vietnam war criminals; self-righteously oppose abortaion and open the door to a flood of the unwanted to fill prisons and welfare folls; legally and otherwise harass homosexuals and lesbians who really are harming no one? What would Jesus do? His enemies said he was a wine-bibber, glutton, a friend to prostitutes and tax collectors! Henry Ratliff
...Getty, a Norton Simon, a Mellon-finds in great art what eluded Alexander of Macedon-a last world to conquer. It is a lust to which overachievers have been notoriously susceptible, from Catherine the Great, who built Leningrad's incomparable Hermitage ("I am not a nibbler but a glutton") to U.S. Industrialist Joseph Hirshhorn, the great benefactor of the Smithsonian ("I have a madman's rage for art"). To be sure, such stupendous collectors and donors still make record purchases. But it is not the proud possessors who crowd the salesrooms and find bonanzas in baubles...