Neo is beset by eager devotees, and Mr. Reeves's mildly shell-shocked blankness -- he's haunted by aspirations -- is the complement to the adoring throngs, who don't bother to notice his discomfort.
Eager young devotees soon had their own stories published, and, as time passed, they became the hardened, canny professionals of the SF pulp world.
In the meantime, he is starting over, equipped with little more than a music studio and a small but eager band of devotees.
Hassan evoked these with rare mastery, which is why devotees and eager students flocked to hear him from far and wide.
Like fans of almost any other sport, Nascar devotees are eager to buy T-shirts and baseball caps with the names and car numbers of their favorite drivers and to wear them to racetracks — or even just to watch the races on television at home.
"Jane Austen devotees are eager to see the places Jane knew or wrote about - it's about being able to visualise it when you are standing there," she said.
And they employ the selfless Garnett: eager to please, a defensive devotee and a multitasker in the lane capable of 20 points and 12 rebounds every night.
(City Tix) "THE SEARCH FOR SIGNS OF INTELLIGENT LIFE IN THE UNIVERSE" Fifteen years after their first visit to Broadway, Trudy, the bag lady who talks to space aliens; Agnus Angst, the teenage performance artist; and Chrissy, the eager if misguided human potential devotee, are back in the person of Lily Tomlin.
If you are a devotee, you will be eager to see how well his humor translates to the printed page, and you won't be disappointed: there are dead spots, and sometimes he tries a little too hard, but over all it translates well.
Fred Plotkin's "Italy for the Gourmet Traveler" incites Pavlovian salivation and equally urgent wanderlust in its devotees, so I was eager to explore his new book, LA TERRA FORTUNATA: The Splendid Food and Wine of Friuli-Venezia Giulia (Broadway, $35).
