Word: wildly
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...wild Halloween weekend including ghosts, goblins and political train trips, gubernational candidates A. Paul Cellucci and L. Scott Harshbarger '64 cranked up their campaigns as they hit the homestretch to tomorrow's election...
...Others theorize that Earth Firsters orchestrated the split to deflect blame for "monkey wrenching," as these tactics are called, from the main organization. Whatever the case, Fedor says the ELFs are experienced monkey wrenchers. Last year they allegedly helped torch two facilities in Oregon used to corral and slaughter wild horses, and they are the suspected culprits in the escape of 310 mink from Wisconsin fur farmers...
...mayor has resolved to ban what he calls the "Day-Glo colors--the wild reds, oranges and purples." If he is successful, the mainly Latino city of 93,000 will be joining a nationwide movement, in which exclusive residential communities from Denver to Fort Worth, Texas, increasingly mandate color, fencing and even what you can park in your driveway. That freedom from choice shows up in commerce. Benjamin Moore paints reports from its New Jersey headquarters that neutrals are in and sales of Briarwood (taupe) and Richmond Bisque (beige) are up across the country...
...scene midway through Apt Pupil, Kurt Dussander (Ian McKellen) tosses a stray cat into an oven. The cat, of course, escapes, to wild cheers from the audience. This scene, while not profound or even endurable, epitomizes Apt Pupil. As in almost any drama, the villain is far more interesting than the "hero," who is likely asleep while our villain is drinking Old Crow, listening to opera and amusing himself by throwing cats into ovens or something. Of course, as in any Hollywood film, the one inviolable taboo is that no matter how many humans are gruesomly murdered, an adorable...
...Torre, which almost always signals a pitching change, since Stottlemyre attends to nursing and instruction. Wells, who understood his fate but naturally resisted it, told Torre, "I have something left. Send [relief pitcher Jeff Nelson] back." Torre smiled and said, "Go off and get your round of applause"--a wild expectation in Cleveland. Wells smiled too, walked to the dugout, and tipped his cap to the not entirely booing crowd...