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Word: wilding (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Smiles of A Summer Night, 4, 7:30, 11, Wild Strawberries, 5:50, 9:25, tonight only; Hester Street...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Cambridge | 10/16/1975 | See Source »

...second quarter was played on a seesaw, one which was pointing in Harvard's direction by half-time. After a Crimson roughing-the-kicker penalty had allowed the Lions a second chance and resulted in a Bob McKeon 29-yard field goal, Kubacki went wild, and produced 28 points to Columbia's seven...

Author: By Michael K. Savit, | Title: Harvard Barely Survives Lion Attack | 10/14/1975 | See Source »

Congress is an unreal world-and getting more so. Talk there is cheap and wild and it is rarely accountable. Senators and Congressmen do not have to carry out their decisions, do not have to make the Government work. They walk away from responsibility after they cast their votes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY by HUGH SIDEY: When Talk Is Cheap and Wild | 10/13/1975 | See Source »

...attempt to revive the old revue format is noble, but the material for the Wild Stunt Show is simply atrocious. The jokes are so trite, so moldy and artless that we wonder whether they are purposely so in order to heighten the nostalgic values. They either fall into the category of the travelling salesman and farmer's daughter, or into the category of stupid. All are repetitious. There are some notable gimmicks, but to reveal them here would be to deprive them of any possible humor they might have had, because they are just that, substanceless gimmicks...

Author: By Ta-kuang Chang, | Title: Syphilitic Vaudeville | 10/9/1975 | See Source »

...BANANANOFF BUNCH is a sanitized version of the Wild Stunt Show played on weekend afternoons for children. The body and set-up of the dirty jokes are still there--the banana and weiner routines for example--but robbed of their off-color punchlines, they hang tantalizingly like dangling participles...

Author: By Ta-kuang Chang, | Title: Syphilitic Vaudeville | 10/9/1975 | See Source »

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