Word: wilder
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...them in which to institute their conception of civilization from a clean slate. The inter-actions between the Americans of the Archbuilder colony seem so elemental, summon such basic dilemmas and yield such unproductive results that the reader can only wonder why the Wild West was not indeed wilder...
...Close has been able to get some vibrancy into the results of his system: the work of the imagination has been moved up from background to foreground, from the planning of the image to its actual execution. Some artists get stuck in their style as they age. Others get wilder; they are among the lucky ones, and this show makes it clear that Close is one of them...
...Willey clan. Her father-in-law, one of the state's most powerful legislators, did not approve of the match, but her husband Ed loved her. Willey spent many of her married years working on Democratic campaigns, including Chuck Robb's senatorial bid and several of Governor Douglas Wilder's campaigns. As part of the constant round of political giving and receiving, Kathleen Willey met Clinton, then Governor of Arkansas, at a 1989 Charlottesville fund raiser. At a party following the 1992 presidential debate in Richmond, Willey was excitedly introducing the candidate to other prominent Democrats. "I don't think...
This wouldn't be a problem if Mad City weren't such a character-driven piece. Echoing Billy Wilder's 1952 Ace In The Hole, the film aligns two distinct personalities--the hardened reporter and the simple, down-on-his-luck everyman--and pits them both against the senseless juggernaut of popular culture. "This movie is about people," Gavras says, and the people who star in it are indeed its finest assets. Dustin Hoffman plays Max Brackett, a hotshot national news reporter who has been demoted to a backwater affiliate station in northern California after a mysterious incident involving celebrity...
...victories of David Dinkins in New York City, Douglas Wilder in Virginia, and Jim Florio in New Jersey seemed to spell trouble for then-President Bush and the Republicans. Maybe so, but an economic downturn before the '92 election didn't hurt either. Additionally, Dinkins' and Wilder's wins led many to announce a fundamental shift in white voters' acceptance of African-American candidates. Unfortunately, no evidence of a national trend in this direction ever appeared and these two winners of yesterday now reside in 'Where are the now?' obscurity...