Word: wildness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...political limelight. Without much coaxing he agreed to attend a press conference and a meeting of the Dane County Democratic Club. When Stevenson strode into the Democratic meeting in the Park Hotel, Club President Elizabeth Tarkow shouted, "Let's really give him a welcome!" The place went wild. Old Stevenson buttons magically appeared, the old nostalgia flowed, and tears brimmed in Adlai's eyes. But he quickly recovered his usual aplomb. "I wish I had something to give you in return," he told his eager listeners. "You have, Adlai, you have!" shouted someone in the audience. "But please...
...rest of the plot is as snarled as a ball of tumbleweed. The major and his wife turn up in Mexico on a junket intended to promote the building of international roadbeds, and there, at a fiesta, stands Mitchum. Woofs the hero to the lady, amid the confusion of wild music and whirling skirts: "Let's get out of here." Her response...
Apaches take care of the major. Mitchum takes care of the Apaches. By this time, at least 48 subplots are in sore need of resolution. Mitchum takes the only way out, crosses the Rio Grande again, leaving behind him a western that is more woolly than wild...
...small (three-quarters of a square mile) compounds housing eleven legations, an international force of 400 from eight countries held off some 25,000 wild besiegers for 55 days. A single determined assault would have smothered the defenders. The foreigners, mostly British, Russians and Americans, had little ammunition; they did have food (mostly pony meat), champagne from the legation cellars, water, and the certain knowledge that defeat meant death by torture. The grim defense showed the Boxers to be paper tigers. Though the peasants screamed, "Sha, sha [Kill, kill]," they left most of the fighting to the Empress...
...peanuts were actively encouraged. A pianist furnished background accompaniment on a worn upright; and during the intervals singers favored the audience with such oldies as "'Til We Meet Again," "Curse of an Aching Heart," "Goodbye, Little Yellow Bird," "Father, Dear Father, Come Home to Me Now," "I'm Just Wild About Harry," and "Please Don't Talk About Me When I'm Gone." The Playhouse is closing its summer schedule currently with a production of Louis Peterson's Take a Giant Step, a sensitive treatment of Negro adolescence that has enjoyed two New York productions in recent years...