Word: wildes
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It’s started to snow and you know what that means. Somewhere in a grungy old loan office, an old British man with wild hair is counting his money, about to endure a night of adventures with the ghosts of his past, present, and future. Charles Dickens’s “A Christmas Carol” has no doubt become hackneyed: everyone knows the story and the characters. Fortunately, three recent Harvard graduates are reinvigorating Ebenezer’s story at Worcester’s Foothills Theater in Massachusetts. Erica R. Lipez...
...Best female friend and/or developing love interest: “Blahnik by Boman: Shoes, Photographs, Conversation” by Eric Boman. 224 pages of Manolo Blahnik shoe pornography will drive your favorite girl wild. The photography is also phenomenally creative—Boman nestles a pale green mule among ferns as homage to Blahnik’s recurring botanical themes. If you really love her or really want action, pair the artful book with “Sex and the City-The Complete Series” DVD set, in which the sublime stilettos play an important supporting role...
...notorious example of this phenomenon, A Tribe Called Quest’s debut single “Can I Kick It?” takes Lou Reed’s “Take a Walk on the Wild Side,” relatively unadorned, as its beat. Unsurprisingly, the lines about “colored girls” singing didn’t make the transition, but the laid-back bass line survives amid Afrocentric lyrical nuggets...
...resident Ben (Nathan Phillips), and British tourists Liz (Cassandra Magrath) and Kristy (Kestie Morassi). Although the camera work is certainly appealing and the plot gripping, the movie ultimately seems like an Australian version of “The Blair Witch Project.” The movie kicks off with wild party footage like that of a teen comedy, but rapidly turns into an exhilarating thriller. The trio drives along endless dirt roads until they reach a small town, where they attempt to pick up gas and the girls are sexually threatened by a group of un-groomed locals. McLean successfully...
...place for political openness carries with it the seeds of its own decline or even demise," she wrote. "For it will have bred a politically naive, dependent, manipulable people who ... can be compared to artificially nurtured hothouse plants, unable to survive if thrown among the sturdy plants in the wild...