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Word: wilde (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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Sunday, July 20 SOUNDS OF SUMMER (NET, 8-10 p.m.). Arthur Fiedler conducts the Boston Pops in a George Gershwin concert, including An American in Paris, Concerto in F for Piano and Orchestra (with Pianist Earl Wild) and selections from Porgy and Bess...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Jul. 18, 1969 | 7/18/1969 | See Source »

...WILD BUNCH. The script is only another chapter in the legend of the West. But Sam Peckinpah's triumphant direction places him with the best of the newer generation of American film makers and makes the film a raucous, extremely violent classic of its genre...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Jul. 18, 1969 | 7/18/1969 | See Source »

Mississippi is probably one of the only places left that nature still has control of Most of the land isn't farmed or inhabited, it's just wild jungle. We departed from the main highway and went speding through the night with top off on this up-and-down, curving, two-lane country road. We were going about sixty-five or seventy with the sound of the jungle roaring out at us from both sides. It was either five million grasshoppers rubbing their back legs together at same time or lots of big whooping birds crying into the swamp...

Author: By John G. Short, (SPECIAL TO THE SUMMER NEWS) | Title: Lobsters, Christmas Trees, and Sparkles Star in the New Saga of the Deep South | 7/18/1969 | See Source »

...Wild Bunch is the story of a group of men whose only communal experience is killing. They whose only communal experience is killing. They are always shown alone (hence the preponderance of close-ups), divorced not only from their surroundings but from each other. Devoid of any real personal identity, they live only for the moments when they are "in action," presumably revelling in the beauty of spurting blood...

Author: By Terry CURTIS Fox, | Title: Grit | 7/15/1969 | See Source »

...Wild Bunch is at its worst when it is either moralizing (dialogue which nearly screams "Vietnam, Vietnam" at the audience) or when it is tentative (nostalgic close shots superimposed over the final track). But for the most part Peckinpah is honest both to his audience and himself. Rather than attempting to establish a mythical west, Sam Peckinpah has given us a segment of his own world, and it is a far more vital one indeed...

Author: By Terry CURTIS Fox, | Title: Grit | 7/15/1969 | See Source »

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