Word: wild
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...regarded as old hat was something new for Matisse. He had made his name in the preceding decade as the most dauntless of the Fauves - the Wild Beasts - a small group of painters who pushed the telegraphic brushwork of Impressionism and the dissonant palette of post-Impressionism into fever territory. At their head was Matisse, King of the Beasts, building pictures out of colliding zones of pyrotechnic color or from staccato dashes of magenta and ultramarine...
...outburst of five runs in the second inning led Penn past the Crimson in Saturday’s second game. The Quakers, batting first, came out on fire in their only inning of scoring. A run by sophomore pinch runner Elora Daniele on a wild pitch opened up the floodgates, and after Penn batted arond, the onslaught was finally ended with a key tag-out by senior catcher Jess Pledger and an out on a ground ball...
...says he and his customers are already suffering from the recession and the first two rounds of austerity measures. But he expects things to get worse before they get better. "Of course there will be more measures," he says as two gray-haired women haggle over bundles of wild greens, adding that he hopes people will go to the streets to protest when there are. "Maybe in 10 years we will see if things get better." (Read "Greek Austerity Measures Spark Rising Protests...
Interested in the Victorian period, women’s history, and sensationalist novels, Schama had a very specific focus for her junior year History & Literature tutorial. Fortunately for her, that focus has since become the basis for her thesis and her new book, “Wild Romance,” published last month by Walker and Company...
...ducks, Delaware Senator Ted Kaufman should be coasting at this point. No matter what happens in November, he will be out of a job a few days later, when his two-year turn as Vice President Joe Biden's appointed replacement comes to an end. "I'm junior," the wild-haired, 71-year-old former Biden staffer admits. "I can't get more junior." (See the top 10 Joe Biden gaffes...