Word: wilding
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...popcorn ballet. The lightening quick change was an art--wigs off, costumes off, leotards bare, popcorns on; each actress had a dresser to help her and each reached her mark just barely on time. They grabbed their "shells" as two actors rushed by to grab "flames." The audience went wild. Four minutes later, the process shifted into an equally-frenzied reverse...
Discontent is further aggravated by the government's censorship of political opposition groups, media and art. Opposition groups are strictly controlled. While I was there, wild rumors were circulating through the university to the effect that seven students had been shot by the police. These students were reportedly members of a reactionary Muslim group that went around protesting against the relaxation of Muslim morals, notorious for beating up women in mini-skirts. Usually the police presence is felt rather than observed in Algeria. You forget that Boumidienne has a massive intelligence organization until you realize that people are reluctant...
Leaks about Negotiations: "Ambassador [Simcha] Dinitz delicately commented that many leaks were apparently coming from the American delegation. Kissinger went wild. 'You blame the Americans?' he asked incredulously. The journalists who accompanied him, he said, knew nothing except what he told them. And he only told them what served the negotiations...
...controversial man of letters and humbug; in Corpus Christi, Texas. His 1971 book. The Memoirs of Chief Red Fox, told it all-in fact, more than all: in his memoirs, the chief recalled his days acting in vaudeville and the movies, and touring with Buffalo Bill Cody's wild West show. He remembered catching fish with the hooked ribs of field mice and the braves' 1876 victory dance after they had wiped out General Custer. But it was his blow-by-blow account of the 1890 Wounded Knee massacre that taxed his publisher, McGraw-Hill. Investigations showed that...
...reason enough for gratitude. But Jan Hartman's script confronts Whitman's homosexuality with good bluntness, and Torn, a gutsy actor who has long deserved better of his trade than he usually receives, plays the populist bard instead of embalming him. There is something fine and wild in his spirit, in his very eyes, that is a perfect match for Whitman. It is hard to think of a historical drama that has dared to be as lively with a great historical name as this...