Word: wilder
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RICHMOND -- DOUGLAS WILDER's scuttling of his independent Senate candidacy in Virginia probably saves the seat for incumbent Democrat Chuck Robb. But wait -- there's a flip side: Democrats may lose two tight House races in which they were counting on a large turnout of blacks voting for Wilder to translate into votes for regular Democrats lower down on the ticket...
Dunne and his wife, writer Joan Didion, have moved to Manhattan, but they lived in Southern California for years, wrote screenplays off and on and knew everyone in the movie business. The list of acknowledgments at the end of Playland names Otto Preminger, Natalie Wood, Billy Wilder and a cast of thousands. This explains part of the problem. What is supposed to be a novel is really the author's Hollywood valedictory, and he has included every good show-biz anecdote he ever heard. Unfortunately, the glut of marvelous gossip has stopped his story cold...
...three stages of the project -- writing, shooting, editing -- Stone encouraged everybody to go higher, wilder. "The set was intense and exciting," recalls Harrelson, a bit of a real-life brawler whose father is in prison for murder. "Oliver played an incessant barrage of wild music to get you going. The crew would jam the music, then fire shotguns into the air." All the actors felt this electricity, like a searchlight or a cattle prod. "Oliver shot at a feverish pace," Sizemore says, "54 days and no standing around. It was managed chaos...
...pornography, sexual assault, aggravated sexual abuse of a child, obstruction of justice and unlawfully communicating with a witness. Reynolds, who's been under investigation since June, denies all -- and says his now-18-year-old accuser's a lesbian who once practiced Satan worship. The ride can only get wilder, says TIME Chicago reporter Julie Grace, who notes Reynolds is also being chased for a spate of alleged financial crimes by the U.S. Attorney's Office, the Illinois Attorney General and the Federal Election Commission. "Political insiders think there's going to be a whole lot more fallout -- that...
...manner that does the author of Wuthering Heights proud. In the world portrayed by Campion, the characters have no defense against the passion that threatens to overtake them. They are foreigners transplanted to a strange new land where the senses rule. Life is overpowering here: the sea is wilder than in England, the rain more forceful and abundant. The jungle teems with life, and the knee-deep mud threatens to hold the inhabitants fast. The majority of the colonists attempt to barricade against the overwhelming fecundity of the land, closing ranks and trying to maintain the forms of the English...