Word: wilder
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...reconception involves very little change in the text -- some tinkering and one new song -- but a top-to-bottom rethinking of attitude. The intention of composer Lloyd Webber, lyricist-librettists Don Black and Christopher Hampton, choreographer Bob Avian and director Trevor Nunn was always to echo Billy Wilder's astringent film. In London, however, the team confused fidelity to the plot with fidelity of tone...
...Wilder first envisioned beginning in a morgue with sheet-covered bodies speaking in voice-over. Although that scene did not wind up in the movie, it helps explain why Sunset Boulevard can be called the film that invented camp. Egomaniacal Norma, her slavish chauffeur Max (who turns out to be her former director and ex-husband) and down-and-out screenwriter Joe Gillis, who falls into her orbit out of sympathy and a love of luxury, are all a bit ridiculous. Where the London staging took them seriously, the Los Angeles rethink sends them up. Yet it wisely manages...
These tapes show Johnson at a time when he thought he could talk openly and unctuously to the media. His wilder moments, while they were the endless topic of inside gossip and mirth, rarely surfaced in print. That time would end within a few months, but not before he had one last fling at fulsome flattery. From a call to the New York Times' Arthur Krock: "Well, Arthur, you're a mighty wonderful friend . . . and I need you now more than I ever did before, and I read your column just this minute . . . and I just thought how fortunate...
...manner that does the author of Wuthering Heights proud. In the world portrayed by Campion, the characters have no defense against the passions that threaten 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 themselves against the overwhelming fecundity of the land, closing ranks and trying to maintain the forms...
...balance, the U.S. and other Western powers have acquitted themselves fairly well in supporting the new, improving Moscow. Their ministrations in calming even wilder frontiers have, in contrast, been notable duds. George Bush decided to let Europe settle Yugoslavia. Europe decided it needed the U.N., which decided it needed America, which is where Bill Clinton, famous critic of Bush's nonpolicy toward the Balkans, came in. Clinton, who also inherited Bush's more active strategy for Somalia, embodies the tendency of privileged nations in appearing newly allergic to foreign affairs. By ^ everything he has said and done since taking office...