Word: wilding
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...extreme. The characters become flat, or stylized to the point of implausibility. In "Lightning North of Paris," Helprin is unable to bring to life the garret affair between two Americans in Paris, a composer and a ballet dancer; wrapped up in his descriptions of the composer's wild moments when he writes "music which if played for pigeons would have made them rise in intolerance and bend in a sheet of white and gray across the plane of Paris sky," Helprin is happily oblivious of the fact that he has added nothing new to what earlier and better writers have...
...Goodyear and American Airlines-have admitted making the same type of illicit contribution. But there was something strange about Gulfs case. Though other companies admitted that top executives knew about the gifts, Gulfs man on the spot was only its lobbying chief in Washington: Vice President Claude C. Wild...
Could one medium high executive ladle out his company's money without the knowledge of his superiors? Wild blandly assured the special prosecutor that he had wide latitude over his generous budget. He was fined $1,000, Gulf paid another $5,000 fine, and the matter was temporarily dropped. But earlier this year, the Securities & Exchange Commission decided to sue many corporations for failing to disclose to their stockholders illegal slush funds. In Gulfs case, the suit led to a series of damaging disclosures...
...Bahamas Exploration Co., Ltd. may well have passed out $5 million in the U.S. alone. The main job of one of its former officers, William C. Viglia, seems to have been to deposit Gulf money in a Bahamian bank, withdraw it and then run the cash back to Claude Wild in Washington...
...hear / Didn 't Raise My Boy to be a Soldier, I'm in Love With Vienna, I've Told Ev'ry Little Star, I Guess I'll Have to Change My Plan, I Wanna Be Loved By You, and I'm Just Wild About Harry. The Fs have it, but don't forget Sophisticated Lady, Ain 't Misbehavin', and Me and My Shadow...