Word: wilder
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Apartment (Mirisch; United Artists) is the funniest movie made in Hollywood since Some Like It Hot (TIME, March 23, 1959). What's more, it was made by the same two men, Producer-Director Billy Wilder and Writer I.A.L. Diamond, who made that uproarious travesty of transvestitism, and it features the same deft comedian. Jack Lemmon. There the similarities end. The earlier film was a Mack Sennett farce with boys for bathing beauties. Apartment is a comedy of men's-room humours and water-cooler politics that now and then among the belly laughs says something serious...
Food for Centaurs, by Robert Graves. In a remarkably varied collection of poems, essays and stories, joyfully cantankerous Author Graves goat-foots it, in his words, "full-speed in the wilder regions of my own, some say crazy, head...
...Wilder and greasier than the porpoise, Presley came abumping onscreen, wearing boots and a tuxedo, his double-folded forelock bobbing above his head like a Vaseline halo. As he sang Fame and Fortune and Stuck on You, his feet tapped, his hands clapped, and his hips wrestled with each other. The voice was ordinary whine, on the point of becoming vinegar...
...remarkably varied collection of poems, essays and stories, joyfully cantankerous Author Graves goatfoots it, in his words, at "full-speed in the wilder regions of my own, some say crazy, head." The Sign of Taurus, by William Fifield...
...foresaw the strange-feathered notions that would roost inside Graves's head. Out of this intellectual aviary fly de-crested myths, twice-tweaked Bible tales, a poetic cockatoo called the White Goddess, and great whooping cranes of scholarly controversy. As a man who travels "full-speed in the wilder regions of my own, some say crazy, head," Graves ranges airily from poetry to poltergeists, from mushrooms to Majorca (his expatriate home). Though the form changes-essay, lecture, story, poem-the wryly cantankerous wit and charm remain the same...