Word: wilding
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...fires of oil refineries flickering like purgatory. Then all at once, in the distance, he sees the city, a kind of Oz, its lighted crystal buildings like piled diamonds. F. Scott Fitzgerald once said that looking at Manhattan from afar was always to behold it "in its first wild promise of all the mystery and the beauty in the world...
...could be closed. Viewers have a tendency to stay tuned for the news and public affairs offerings of whatever network they are already watching, and ABC's prime-time preconvention lineup this week is more flashily apolitical than ever: Bionic Woman, Let's Make a Deal, Wild, Wild World of Animals-as well as the All-Star Game...
Buntline serves as a kind of chorus, singing counterpoint to the sleazy commercial tones from Bill and his more sophisticated manipulators. They seem to really believe that Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show is indeed "America's national family." They make it their business to paper over the fact that the star can no longer differentiate between the legend that has been created for him and the much plainer reality of his past...
Moviemakers and playwrights love to employ a show as a metaphor for the world; customarily the works that use this device are impossibly pretentious and unpersuasive. As Altman presents it, this tatty wild West show is ill-choreographed and never delivers all it promises. Yet on the whole, it is an extremely graceful journey over ground that has tripped many in the past...
...only those actions that would cause a loss of freedom, that would cause nations to become jungles. Morality is not universal license. Freedom is not universal license. It is when we respect the rights of others that our rights are respected. It is only when immorality runs wild that liberty is threatened. Immorality and freedom cannot coexist. So for the American people to believe that the preservation of our country can be guaranteed by merely cleaning up the waterways and the air, or bettering the economy, or promoting cooperation among nations, or by following other such similar courses, is absolutely...