Word: wilde
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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TRUE GRIT, by Charles Portis. An uproarious period piece about a 14-year-old girl who turns the wild frontier topsy-turvy while avenging the murder...
...reflections derived from the old, hard-sell commercials will be rather odd. In the typical American family, Mom is obviously a nut. Every blessed washday, she is seen running around the backyard with wild, passionate abandon, embracing her laundry and squealing, "It even smells clean!" That's more than can be said for Sis. Poor kid, her best friend just told her she's got rotten armpits. As for Dad, he keeps getting punched in the eye because he won't switch his brand of cigarettes. So he asserts his virility by barreling around mountain roads in his wide-track...
...rated at 100, said the study, British factories rate only 66 -behind plants in Italy, The Netherlands, Belgium, Denmark, Norway, West Germany and France. British executives, said the Brookings report, often "lack breadth as well as technical training," while unions cling to restrictive practices and refuse to tame wild cat strikes...
...gathering last week was characteristic of a great family that has all the money it will ever need. One young Mellon flew in from Bombay, where he had been hunting tigers, and will shortly return to his real job of collecting wild animals in Kenya. Dr. Matthew T. Mellon, a retired art-history professor who, at 71, is the eldest male in the U.S. branch of the family, stayed with the Duke of Abercorn - which is more than his grandparents ever did. Dr. Mellon has not been in Pittsburgh for years; he has houses in Jamaica, Kitzbuhel and Manhattan...
...same sensitivities as his descendants. Writing in the monthly report of the French Prehistoric Society, Archaeologist Arlette Leroi-Gourhan described a cave on the Iraqi side of the Zagros Mountains where a 5-ft. 8-in. Neanderthal man was buried by his friends on a bier of wild flowers. Pollen from blossoms plucked 60,000 years ago in mourning for the unknown hunter came from primordial hyacinths, hollyhocks, and bachelor's buttons. Proving, no doubt, that the first men were also the first flower children...