Word: wildness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Coward will begin a month's run in a Las Vegas pleasure dome at a reported $40,000 a week (a figure which probably, like many in the Nevada resort, is not entirely real). Entertainer Coward, 55, was "enchanted" by the prospect of bringing British culture to the Wild West. Burbled he of Las Vegas: "It's a combination of a gold rush and a honky-tonk...
...this central fact is built the snail merchandising profession. Cadart tells how snails are collected in the wild or raised in breeding establishments. In summer they are placed in "parks" (which date back to Roman times) and provided with shade and moisture. They are fed cabbage or other nourishing food and given loose soil to dig in. The idea is to bring them to bouchage in top condition. Fat and healthy, they dig their nests and seal themselves in for the winter. Then the snail breeders dig them up and ship them to buyers. When snails are broiled, the mucus...
Political Philosophy: "Wild rape and terrorizing . . . unabashed trading away of blood" (Marshal Voroshilov). "Oppression and exploitation . . . adventurisms, leftist ravings. vile maneuvers . . ." (Cominform Journal...
...actually, she was unmarried Donna Reed, a high-fashion pulse-thumper turned out in beautifully tailored buckskins. Heston finds her a tasty dish even if her name is too much for him to master: he calls her "Janie" for short and proposes marriage. For all its duels with knives, wild Indian attacks and synthetic quarrels between the leaders. Horizons ends by creating the one effect the producers were presumably trying to avoid: unadulterated dullness...
...times by finding a secret river crammed with succulent catfish. Evidently, Author Rawlings never published the story because she hoped some day to dream it up to novel-size. It is reminiscent of the same cracker-filled scrub forests and 'gator-filled streams of northern Florida's wild St. Johns River country that the novelist described almost two decades ago in The Yearling. A charmingly illustrated idyl, with just the right mixture of fish story and black-water magic, The Secret River is well worth exploring if it leads youngsters-and those who read to them too-back...