Word: wildered
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...former schoolmate of Rikhye described him as "one of the wilder characters to pass through Harvard...
...made its large flaws seem unimportant. But the big novel loosened Bellow's collar. His next important outburst was Henderson the Rain King (1959). He could not work twice the trick of making literary shapelessness a virtue. And he managed an enormous feat in leading the new novel -wilder and funnier than Augie March -toward resolution. It was one thing to leave young Augie, grinning and scratching his head at the end of the novel. But Henderson, the Yankee millionaire who charges off to Africa in a frenzy of exasperation and despair, is 55 years old. He has asked...
...Billy Wilder had a problem: finding a piece of furniture for his afternoon naps. "After all," the famed movie director (Sunset Boulevard, The Apartment) confided to a friend, "a man of my reputation simply can't afford to have something that looks like a casting couch in his office. It's too obvious a symbol of lechery...
...Charles Eames, the multitalented industrial designer whose molded plywood and leather "Eames chair" is a furniture classic. Busy on a host of other projects-films, graphics, toys and the IBM Pavilion at the New York World's Fair, to name a few-Eames took twelve years to satisfy Wilder's need, while Billy had to make do with a chair and ottoman. But the result, called simply "the Chaise" by its designer, was worth the wait. It is a long, curiously narrow (only 17½ in. wide), aluminum and leather chair, shaped beyond any suspicion...
...Director Wilder grows ecstatic about his new acquisition. "I adore the originality of its shape," he says. "It isn't the old-fashioned Rubens couch; it's more like Giacometti." Eames agrees that the Chaise "is comfortable and works," but he has one reservation: "I'm sad that it's so miserably expensive. What's really discouraging is that its cost doesn't rule it out of the market." Indeed not. This fall, Manhattan's Herman Miller Inc. began taking orders for copies of the Eames-Wilder Chaise-at $636 apiece...