avocation

Howard Atlee, an eclectic publicist who represented award-winning Broadway shows and, as an avocation, also bred dachshunds that won best in show at dog competitions, died on March 15 in Silver Spring, Md. He was 97.

His dialogue snaps, and he can riff on just about anything, including Joe’s avocation as a jazz pianist, with authority.

This avocation can be traced back to an obscure Farmer Alfalfa cartoon his father showed him once.

Once she yells about her charley horse what might have been a saucy turn degrades into an awkward limb pile because that is Miranda's avocation.

At home, he strove for perfection in his avocation, woodworking, where the process was more flexible but the product, for better or worse, could be definitive.