Word: wilding
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Eric Clapton is just too good for his audience's good--it makes him self-indulgently reliant on wild and wonderful improvisations that lend themselves ill to your run-of-the-mill Top 40 song...
Still, like the Romans' feathered friends, the smokeys can help assure a restful night. A Los Angeles fireman who bought several battery-powered smoke detectors for his home put them unopened in the basement. Later that night they all erupted in wild ululation. A fire had started. The family survived...
Actor Lee Marvin, 52, shoots up the Wild West in style, but he lost his first showdown with the California Supreme Court. Marvin's legal troubles began when his ex-roommate filed suit against him. Her claim: the two made an oral agreement to share all property accumulated during the time they lived together (1964-70). Michelle Triola Marvin, as she calls herself, demanded that the actor ante up a solid million-including shares in film rights, a home in Malibu, and an island in the South Pacific. Though Marvin denied that such an agreement was ever made...
...feel too sorry for the Larries, who, a long road trip finally behind them, can once again look forward to wild nights at Scivvy's, the Hoot Owl and the Inside Track on the other side of an eight-hour trek back to Canton...
...LAST few years, popular culture has discovered a new theme. From looking again and again at the individual's struggle to destroy the establishment in books like One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest and movies like Wild in the Streets, writers and movie-makers have turned to looking at what happened to the idealists who thought in the '60s that there was really going to be a revolution in our lifetime. Books like Ann Beattie's Chilly Scenes of Winter or Medved and Wallechinsky's What Really Happened to the Class of '65 detail the survivor's attempts...