Word: wildly
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Impress your Spanish TF with a little Latin lovin' after session at Temporada Latina, a haven of fabulous salsa and merengue dance instruction between 8:30 and 11 p.m. at Ryles Jazz Club (second floor). Drive your next date wild with some quasi-Lambada moves straight out of Dirty Dancing. 212 Hampshire St., Cambridge. 876-9330. $10-12, $7-10 after...
...play, Torre calmly explained to the brawling, beer-swigging pitcher that he owed his teammates an apology. Even at the very end of the season, when they were embarrassing the Padres in the Series, there was catcher Joe Girardi, squatting on the field while pitchers nailed his body with wild throws that he could block only with his body--a practice drill-hazing ritual that most catchers perform only during spring training...
Such are the questions explored by the show, and an intelligently curated and truly absorbing show it is. But then, this Australian-born critic has a bias. Americans, to the extent that they think about Australia at all, tend to imagine it as the Wild West they began to lose a century ago, but with koalas. Australian culture, except for some of its pop music and literature, is wretchedly underreported in the U.S. In fact, this is the first effort ever made by an American museum even to show any images made in Australia in the 19th century, let alone...
...wilderness as God's promise, whereas Australians emphatically didn't. Northeastern America had been settled by free, self-exiled Puritans, convinced of their sacred mission to convert "the Lord's waste," the forests of New England, into a place fit for God's elect. In the 17th century the Wild West was in the East, but by the early 19th the frontier had moved thousands of miles westward, taking with it the same optimistic, sacramental fantasy, translating it into the pompous and morally corrosive idea of Manifest Destiny. The farther west you went, the freer you became...
Still, in early Australia as in America, what artists' clients wanted was the imagery of success and progress in claiming and settling the land. Early 19th century Australian painters, like their counterparts in America, thus showed little interest in painting the wild--until it became a tourist sight. They did farms, villages, settled acres--images that would attract new settlement...