Word: wilder
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...SUNDAY NIGHT MOVIE (ABC, 9-11 p.m.). One, Two, Three, Billy Wilder's marvelous spoof about a Coca-Cola exec in West Berlin, featuring a virtuoso performance by James Cagney...
Politics are normally wild in Ceylon. Last week they were even wilder than usual. The world's only woman head of government, Mrs. Solomen West Ridgeway Dias Bandaranaike, who has ruled Ceylon since 1960, when her husband was assassinated, felt upset when her election speech on the government-controlled radio was followed by the playing of Beethoven's funereal "Pathétique" Sonata. The radio director responsible was sent on "compulsory leave," with no reasons given. The opposition cracked that "classical music was undoubtedly too good a sequel" to Mrs. Bandaranaike's oratory, but jittery disk jockeys...
...Meredith took the 100 freestyle for the third Crimson sweep, and Henry Whelchel led Al Lincoln to the finish in the backstroke. The only race in which a Brown swimmer beat a Harvard swimmer at all was the breastroke. Harvard's Bob Corris swam by Brown's Tom Wilder and Nick Whitlam took third for the varsity...
...Makaha are spawned by violent Pacific storms, often 2,000 miles or more from Hawaii. On a really big day they may top 25 ft. Even the 15-footers provide a hair-raising test as they come rumbling over the reef. But there are days when Makaha is no wilder than Waikiki-as 441 contestants from as far away as Peru and South Africa found out when they converged on Makaha for the International Surfing Championships, the World Series of the sport. For five days anxious surfers vainly scanned the horizon: Finally, on the day before Christmas, 15-ft. waves...
Thanks to Director Wilder, Stupid is professionally shrewd and zippy, and flaunts a kind of vulgar integrity. Not only does everyone talk sex; everyone does something about it. That alone might prove refreshing in a Hollywood farce, except that Wilder isn't celebrating sex as a gloriously human temptation; he is exploiting it as a commodity -and he wears a lascivious grin where his satirical smile ought to be. The result, spelled out in dialogue that sounds like a series of gamy punch lines, is one of the longest traveling-salesman stories ever committed to film. Like all dirty...