Word: wilde
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...brand of blues: "They ain't no more of our kids comin' up. They been havin' too good a time." Jimi Hendrix, whose recording this is, learned guitar from Muddy Waters records, but Muddy never taught him to pluck the strings with his teeth or elbows. Wild as his act is onstage, Hendrix on this LP sings lyrics that are at times as delicate as Donovan's, and his blues are just one stripe in a rainbow of euphonious effects...
Nothing frustrates zoo curators quite so much as trying to mate stubbornly uncooperative animals. Though many wild beasts are compliant enough about breeding behind bars, others seem to lose their reproductive urge as soon as they lose their freedom. But their sexual indifference to their own kind, Zurich Zoologist Heini Hediger told a symposium on animal behavior in San Francisco last week, may obscure a simple fact: they sometimes learn to prefer their keepers to their natural mates...
...paint on hundreds of moody, windswept landscapes and chunky, darkly lit still lifes. These form the basis of his popular reputation in museums around the world. Little in the dour, somber tones of these pictures indicates that Vlaminck first made his mark as a member of the Fauves, the "wild beasts" whose savagely colored canvases so shocked Paris at the Salon d'Automne...
...bumpy trips in northern Minnesota; Grandma in a motoring hat and duster; and how each time we struck a pothole her immense white head, preceded by the hat, would bounce up and hit the car's canvas top." And "Meos, Muongs and Thais, in the mountains of the wild west, though they do not wear feathers, recall American Indians...
...half of the bill might well be Wild in the Streets. The thesis of the movie is that the U.S. is ripe for a teen-age entertainer-turned-politico, a theme explored recently in the English film Privilege. The central character is a delinquent (Christopher Jones) who caterwauls his way into the hearts of young America. An opportunistic Senator (Hal Holbrook) gets a law passed that enfranchises 15-year-olds. They elect Jones President, and suddenly, he-and-shedonism is for everyone under 35. Oldsters who have passed that milestone are packed into concentration camps and mind-blown with...