Word: ardently
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...ardent, the living death of Elvis' sad decline might have supplied paradoxical proof of supernatural powers, but the strongest evidence of the King's capacity to outwit the Grim Reaper lies in Elvis' art itself. He outwitted--outlived--the heartbreak he sang about even as he sang about it. Like Marlon Brando, his favorite actor and another virtuoso of feline virility, the King simultaneously performed and watched himself perform. The emotions he belted out never took him in. His sobs are more like a parody of sobs. Play I Want You, I Need You, I Love You, and listen...
...most palatable starting point for an Israeli government sharply divided over the terms of a political solution with the Palestinians and whether to resume relations with the PA. The dusty strip of Mediterranean coastline populated mostly by Palestinian refugees holds little sentimental value to even the most ardent Zionists, and many of Sharon's supporters vehemently opposed to a Palestinian state in the West Bank tend to acknowledge that it might be an inevitability in Gaza. Unlike the West Bank, Gaza is separated from Israel by a border fence that has, for the most part, kept terrorists from reaching Israeli...
...campus beleaguered with space constraints, the open frontier in Allston brings welcome relief. Students in cramped houses, professors in understaffed departments and the ardent supporters of a student center can now hope for a new era at Harvard. Once the University expands into its spacious holdings in Allston—totaling more than all the University’s Cambridge land—space will be freed on both sides of the river. But while expansion offers many obvious advantages for Harvard, it will pose significant challenges that will require creative, foresighted administrative planning. Expanding into Allston must be done...
Rather than an ardent hedonist, Millet views herself as a passive participant malleable to the desires of others, observing, "I am not docile because I like submission, because I have never tried to put myself in a masochistic situation, but out of a deep-seated indifference to the uses to which we put our bodies." It's unclear, however, why such indifference led her to embrace sex rather than, say, field hockey...
...original girl in the gray flannel skirt, the first woman president of a big Madison Avenue firm. Wells was the godmother of a style of advertising that was witty, irreverent and anti-authority. Her memoir, A Big Life, tells the tale of her agency, Wells Rich Greene; her ardent wooing of clients; her even more ardent love match with Harding Lawrence, the impresario of Braniff Airways; and her battle with cancer. It's as engaging, effervescent and brave as the ads she created. --By Richard Stengel