To acknowledge Ms. Zambello's healthy respect for the old razzle-dazzle is not to deny either her voracious intellectual appetite or her appreciation of ordinary domesticity.

Manuel Lozano, who plays Moncho, has a wide-eyed, slightly pouty face that registers amazement, bafflement and an almost scholarly intellectual appetite.

At Queens, he said with the obvious satisfaction of a teacher who delighted in whetting intellectual appetites, they are hungrier.

But rather than indicating a common theme, this profusion of talkers and listeners testifies instead to the city's enormously varied intellectual appetite.

Teymourtash's voracious intellectual appetite led him to assemble one of the most extensive private library collections in Iran.

As a result of his upbringing, Mr. Pena Gomez relied on his voracious intellectual appetite to supplement a tenuous early education.

"It's a remarkable collection, showing us an enormous intellectual appetite."

Boyd Shreave had no schedule, as his wife well knew; no hobbies, interests or intellectual appetites.

But the study of stereotypes is only one object of Mr. Gilman's omnivorous intellectual appetite.

Maybe that's why, while issue-specific political art goes down like medicine, Beckmann's work can, at its best, stimulate the intellectual appetite.