Word: wildness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...room which they shared together, all five were gone. Calling on his neighbors for help, Father Moonsammy frantically searched the darkness for the missing girls. At dawn he found them. Silhouetted by the eerie morning light, their five young bodies hung lifeless from branches of two wild fig trees just 100 yards from their father's house. Amid the wailing of friends and neighbors, the police announced the cause of death: suicide...
...many a coonskin cap. but Davy Crockett has summer's sound waves well in hand. The Ballad of Davy Crockett with a flash sale of some 7,000,000 records seems on the way to the summit of non-seasonal sales.* Davy is undisputed King of the Wild Frontier in three cold-cash categories-Popular. Western and Kiddie...
...instrument." Concert Banjoist José Silva, whose educated banjo can romp through complicated pieces like the Hungarian Rhapsody and Poet and Peasant, loves his instrument for its warm humanity-about as far from the denatured ickiness of an electric guitar as he can get. "The banjo is a wild thing," he says. "You stroke it wildly, and that figure-eight gesture they used to use on it is fine for a banjo. People like the banjo because it's a happy instrument...
...willful as she was lovely, the Duchess surrounded herself with the freaks, dwarfs and buffoons whom Goya loved to draw. They made a dramatic setting for her fragile, doll-like beauty. Goya drew and painted her often, sometimes with admiration and sometimes in anger at her wild flirting. Once he showed her carried away by witches and looking as cool as ever. When she died, he turned from palace to street life, found it every bit as weird. He was the first social commentator in art to recognize and dispense with the unconscious snobbism of picturesque effects...
...both drama and humor. She briskly recalled how confident she had been that she would answer the $8,000, $16,000 and $32,000 questions. Then she serenely added: "And I am a little confident that I can answer the $64,000 question." The studio audience exploded into wild, sustained applause, certain that Grandma Kreitzer had decided to risk her winnings for the jackpot. "But," she continued as the applause died down, "I am balancing that confidence with a quotation from Ephesians, 'Let your moderation be known unto all men.' So I'm going...