Word: wilder
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Hollywood, Steven took along his bus-driver parents John and Rita Warner and his sister Mandy, 10, to enjoy his fame. In an appearance on Dinah!, he brought down the house when asked what he talked to other kids about. "The usual," he said. "My film." And when Gene Wilder, who played with Steven in Prince, protested, "This boy is just being exploited; he isn't having any fun at all," Steven looked distinctly annoyed and allowed a fine frown to crease his angelic brow...
...trip past the lesser galactic bodies toward earth-Victor Spinetti as a historian, Clive Revill as a businessman who claims he owns all the stars, Graham Crowden as a general without a single soldier in his army Once on earth, the Little Prince meets a shy, friendly fox (Gene Wilder) and the aforementioned snake, played by Bob Fosse, who choreographed his own number He dances it with such undulating grace and molten charm that the show, for the moment, is stolen...
Acts of Terror. In the popular mind, at least, the Palestine Liberation Organization has been blamed for most of the acts of Arab terrorism. In fact, the P.L.O. is anything but a disciplined group, and Arafat has frequently had difficulty in controlling some of its wilder members. He has publicly condemned some of the most outrageous acts of terror carried out by his affiliates within the P.L.O., not so much on moral grounds but because they hurt the fedayeen image...
Housing costs, however, vary so strikingly from one part of the country to another, and even from city to city within the same region as to astonish many families on the move. The reasons are be wilder ingly diverse, but there are some common themes. Generally, prices are lowest in the South and Southwest, where most houses are built without basements, although prices have been rising rapidly in fast-growing Houston. Lack of population growth in St. Louis and Philadelphia and easy access to lumber supplies in the Northwest have held prices down there. On the other hand, high land...
...credulity. On the other hand, his problems often lead the Ingalls family into livelier action sequences than competing shows offer. Best of all, the show eschews the nostalgic and moralizing narration that is the most obvious of the many trials The Waltons inflicts on viewers. Like the Laura Ingalls Wilder children's books from which the show derives, Little House genuinely seems to be striving for a simple, straightforward style, minimizing both melodramatic and sentimental excesses...