Word: wilding
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...17th century and positively rococo in the 18th, peering from cartouches, dallying under formalized palms. The ideas of Rousseau transmuted him into a red-skinned Cato or Brutus garbed in instinctive rectitude. And as he began to perish along the white frontier, the theme of racial destruction in a wild, vast landscape evoked lamentations from romantic artists who had never been there-especially from Delacroix, whose Les Natchez, 1824-35, is an American cousin to his Massacre at Chios...
...author of two published books of verse, Patti Smith has worked as a musician intermittently over the past year or so, mainly in New York underground night spots. Dylan turned up at a performance recently-an event that confers rock's official blessing. Her debut record, like her wild-eyed poems, reveals an artist who is gifted but undisciplined. Leading off with Gloria in excelsis deo ("Jesus died for somebody's sins, but not mine"), her dark voice projects a tough, fragile, street-girl image. The showcase number, Horses, invokes Rimbaud and glorifies mutilation ("He opened his throat...
...bless Moet, God bless Chandon Let's get drunk with wild abandon...
Three years ago, the Crimson skaters edged the Terriers 6-5 in wild game at Walter Brown Memorial Rink. But the next time the two got together, in Boston Garden for the Beanpot tournament, B.U. humiliated Harvard 8-3 and went on to win the trophy...
Besides, The New Republic has historically been pro-Zionist, Peretz says, even when Israel was "a wild gleam in the eye of some madman...