Word: wilder
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...they gained confidence, the Pythons embarked on ever wilder flights of fancy. Simple moments, such as a karate class being attacked by fresh fruit, grew to sequences like the Killer Joke that caused everyone to die laughing. Ultimately, the Joke was taken over by the War Office and launched against the Nazis in the Ardennes. Another Python classic was the case of the listless cat. "In a rut," declared its owners, who thereupon called in the Confuse-A-Cat team, men in white coats who stage a full-scale military review. The cat watches without twitching a whisker. Then...
Altogether, five manuscripts weren't collected or printed, including Thorn ton Wilder's lecturers for 1950-51. "The American Literature." Unlike the gregarious Frost, Wilder was supposed to have prepared his lectures very carefully. But despite the large amount of time he put into them, the novelist/playwright was reluctant to publish a critical work...
...Three, Billy Wilder's cold-war farce, Horst Bucholz was held captive by ruthless commissars intent on prying secret information out of him. He resisted, at least initially. Then the villains immured him in a room with a phonograph that kept playing over and over It Was an Itsy Bitsy Teeny Weeny Yellow Polka Dot Bikini. His will frayed, his sanity shot, Bucholz broke...
...clerks read to him after the death of his wife. "Do we have to improve our minds today? Can't we have a little murder" he pleaded with Hiss one day. The exhibit contains Holmes' diary listing every book he ever read: ironically, the last entry in Thornton wilder's Heaven's My Destination...
...Last of Shella. This week, though, looks terrific. Made by Carol Read in 1949, The Third Man is one of the most exciting movies ever made. Tonight is von Sternberg's 1936 version of Crime and Punishment with none other than Peter Lorre as Raskoinlloov, Tomorrow begins Billy Wilder's The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes and Orson Welles' The Stranger, with Edward G. Robinson as a Nazi war criminal hiding out in America...