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"Alcohol is toxic, too, but I give that an exemption!" One of Cameron's agents, Adam Devejian, of C.A.A. — buzz-cut and buff — came up to say hello.

Kullgren, a sci-fi buff, came up with the back story about a deadly plague of alien infectors, which turned out to be precisely with the zeitgeist when the mad-cow-disease panic struck.

"For the Fitness Buff," comes the OSIM iGallop Core & Abs Exerciser.

Movie buffs come to the Ocean Course, too.

Populonia Archaeological buffs come for the Etruscan ruins (some of the best preserved in Tuscany), while beachgoers head below to the wide bay beaches of Baratti.

He dispenses advice on technique and diagnoses faulty equipment, but he has also cultivated a barber-shop-style clubhouse where paintball buffs come to talk shop — and vent about marital problems or politics.

I read "In Manhattan, Another Burial for 400 Colonial-Era Blacks" (front page, Oct. 2) as a history buff but came away with a renewed sense of injustice about slavery and the ramifications it has had for Americans of every color.

The next day the buff squad came back and removed their paint from the mural.

Being silent-film buffs, they came up with the idea of setting the story in Hollywood during the era when sound revolutionized the industry.

Part movie guide, part manifesto, Amos Vogel's 1974 book "Film as a Subversive Art" has loomed large in many a film buff's coming of age.

In many ways, they are no different from any other hardcore buffs: Trekkies; Civil War re-enactors; J. F. K. assassination buffs who come to blows over the role of the man with the umbrella in Dealey Plaza.