Word: wilderness
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...rule allowing Early Decision applicants to also apply Early Action—Princeton, Brown, Yale, Stanford and now Harvard all limit their early candidates to one early application—NACAC has decided to delay enforcement until it can review its definition, according to Martin A. Wilder, NACAC vice president for admission, counseling and enrollment practices...
...Maine man who declared, "Bush does not even come close to having the qualities that I have always attributed to Uncle Sam: honesty, integrity and concern for all Americans." And a 9-year-old Kentucky girl saw an unusual resemblance: "The picture looks amazingly like the actor Gene Wilder in Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory...
DIED. HORST BUCHHOLZ, 69, German-born film star, best known to American audiences as one of the seven cowboys in the 1960 classic The Magnificent Seven and as a communist heartthrob in Billy Wilder's 1961 cold-war comedy One, Two, Three; of pneumonia; in Berlin...
Film Without A Title, also shown on last Friday, is a self-conscious film about filmmaking in the years after the defeat of the Nazis. Other films in the series include the German valentine to American jazz, Fanfares of Love, which Billy Wilder recast as Some Like It Hot a few years later, and The Hooligans, about youth rebelling against their Nazi-generation parents, a movie which resembles Rebel Without A Cause.While some of these films seem similar to Hollywood products of the Cold War era, many manifest a uniquely German struggle to create a new post-war national identity...
...redheaded "flapper" was a beguiling presence. By the age of 20 Haas was starring in an Ufa movie with her own name in the title ("Dolly Gets Ahead"). From 1930 to '35 she played the worldly waif, the child-woman, in about 18 German films, many for writers (Billy Wilder, Curt Siodmak) and directors (William Dieterle, Anatole Litvak, William Thiele, Steve Sekely, Henry Koster) who would fashion second careers in Hollywood...