Word: wildered
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Chomsky's language was calm, restrained, almost antiseptically reasoned; he was, one feels, especially careful to obey the intellectual ground rules of a political world-view which was otherwise alien and unacceptable to him. In At War With Asia, he rejects that constraint, and his language is less careful, wilder, and in many ways far more moving...
...percentage craze is growing wilder. According to its latest ads, Score makes hair "juicy" and "actually 12% plumper." The account people at Wells, Rich, Greene, the agency that dreamed up the ad, insist that this figure was established in microscopic measurement tests. Similarly, Crisco Oil claims that it splatters 35% less than other oils. To determine this percentage, Procter & Gamble research men say they repeatedly collected the splatter of eight frying oils on aluminum foil and measured the weight of the sheets...
Other styles have been wispier (the Char), wilder (the Afro), more exaggerated (the Artichoke) and harder to maintain (the Poodle). But until now, women had not seriously considered a hairdo based on a multitude of lengths, from very short on top, to slightly longer along the sides, to a long, lank finale down the neck. They never considered it for good reason: it was sure to look abominable. But then so do midiskirts. And with hems gone to ungainly lengths, why not hair too? What better way to play both ends against the mini...
Hollywood has caught up at last. Wilder, 35, has lately been besieged with scripts and has sifted through them with his own brand of mad logic. What sort of actor would turn down a tempting offer from Mike Nichols to play in Catch-22, but accept the lead role as a Dublin manure spreader in a film improbably titled Quackser Fortune Has a Cousin in The Bronx? To everyone's good fortune (especially his own), Wilder did just that. Says he: "Quackser was the idealization of everything I've wanted to do as an actor. He typifies where...
Quackser is an urban savage who prefers shoveling horse manure from the streets of Dublin and spreading it on ladies' flowers to working in the foundry with his father. Without Wilder's protean talents, the film could have been absurd: an upper-middle-class American girl studying at Trinity College (Margot Kidder) nearly runs Quackser over in an MG but winds up taking him to her farewell dance and ultimately to bed. Wilder makes the affair believable by investing his role with an appealing integrity as well as sexual overtones; he himself added two scenes early...