Word: wilderness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...their parties (Iran-contra figure Oliver North for the Republicans and incumbent Senator Charles Robb for the Democrats), two men are mounting challenges in Virginia's Senate race. Former state attorney general J. Marshall Coleman, a Republican, is already running as an independent, and former Democratic Governor L. Douglas Wilder is expected to announce his formal candidacy soon. Virginians are now assured one of the most contentious, unpredictable campaigns in the nation...
...wrong. The voters were not interested in a cultural war. What has changed in the political landscape in the two years since Quayle's Murphy Brown speech is not a return to "family values" (as if they'd ever gone away), but a | panicky Republican retreat from the wilder shores of intolerance...
...strange and fabulous Widener (okay, so it's not really Widener: Harvard wouldn't allow Alek to film there). He goes down into a boiler room, a strange and fabulous boiler room--a scary boiler room not unlike an old steel mill--and encounters among the boilers Simon Wilder (Joe Pesci), a homeless man living there. Simon has Monty's thesis but won't give it back. Monty gets Simon evicted, but Simon hides the thesis. He makes a deal with Monty to give him a page a day for food and housing...
During his Oscar acceptance speech, Trueba equated Billy Wilder with God, and it is in this scene that Wilder's influence comes through most strongly. In drag, Sanz bears a striking resemblance to Tony Curtis in Wilder's "Some Like It Hot," and the whole carnival sequence in "Belle Epoque" smacks of the landmark 1959 film...
...three little-known challengers in his party's June primary. And the Clinton White House has signaled its preference for him. But even if none of his obscure challengers gathers steam, Robb is not assured of a clean shot in the general election. His longtime foe, former Governor Douglas Wilder, would like nothing better than to send Robb back to lawyering. Wilder has been grumbling that Virginians deserve a better choice than Robb vs. North. If they win their parties' nominations and Warner succeeds in inserting a conservative independent, Wilder may enter as a Democratic independent. With strong backing from...