Word: wildes
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...Terrebonne native, Clifford Smith is skeptical about Gagliano's plan, but he believes that the extraordinary situation may call for rethinking where some people live. "I'm a landowner down there, so I'm not wild about eminent domain, but this was a biblical event we suffered," he says. "To solve this in the future, we're going to have to compromise...
Sometimes those comments can get downright loopy, and that's how J.P.L. often likes things. Openness to wild ideas goes back to the 1960s, when the lab established an office to dream up plans for future missions, and an engineer crunching numbers one day happened to notice that in 1977, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune would fall into a rare planetary conga line that they would not form again for 176 years. This insight set the stage for the spectacular four-planet Voyager flights of the 1970s and '80s. Today the business of blue-skying ideas has become more institutionalized...
...Allen to "go on, go on, go on"--be bigger, bolder--in the role of the 1930s actor who literally steps off the screen in The Purple Rose of Cairo, and pushed by Jonathan Demme, to go from repressed yuppie to Melanie Griffith's handcuffed boy toy in Something Wild...
...baleful combination of loneliness and longing that characterized the childhoods of so many gay adults. Gay kids can now watch fictional and real teens who are out on shows like Desperate Housewives, the dating show Next on MTV and Degrassi (a high school drama on the N network whose wild popularity among adolescents is assured by the fact that few adults watch it). Publishers like Arthur A. Levine Books (of Harry Potter fame) and the children's division at Simon & Schuster have released something like a dozen novels about gay adolescents in the past two years. New, achingly earnest books...
...happy because she understands just a little bit more (her favorite animal is, she exclaims matter-of-factly, the lemur). And when a long-foreshadowed tragedy strikes, she gives a 10-hanky breakdown as spiritual questioning comes crashing into her carefully structured worldview. Runners-up: hormones gone wild in the “Half-Blood Prince,” Jeremy Piven’s scenery devouring on “Entourage,” and Sara Ramirez pushing her diaphragm a lot in “Spamalot...