Word: wildness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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From the tropical seas came a wild and brutal storm -or rather a series of storms following vengefully one upon the other -to rain destruction and tragedy upon a vast area encompassing most of Northern California, Oregon, Washington, Idaho and Nevada...
Zorba the Greek. A wild wind whirls through an open door. A wild old man strides into a dingy waiting room. His face is like a side of cheese the maggots have been at, but his eyes are bright and piercing. "Hollow cheeks, strong jaw, jutting cheekbones, a large voracious mouth, a living heart, a great brute soul not yet severed from Mother Earth"-this is Zorba the Greek. He strides up to a young man he has never seen before and looks deep into his eves. "I like you," he announces fiercely. "Take me with...
With them, said Washington, went at least 40 Algerians, presumably military advisers to Rebel President Christophe Gbenye's wild-eyed warriors. Sensing a chance to make a few easy points with African leaders. Moscow announced that it would replenish any supplies that had been sent to the rebels. Moreover, Algiers' Boufarik airbase was aswarm with Russian technicians and aviators, many of whom no doubt were flying the Juba run, since Algerian pilots have not yet had time to check out in the Soviet-built...
Neatness of execution, however, was not always a virtue even to Rodin, although aptness of thought was. The vogue for primitive art has led some sculptors to making fetishes. Edward Kienholz, 37, assembles objects from Grandmother's Victorian parlor and makes them into a wild and woolly revulsion called The Four Bears, which is composed, or decomposed, of a life jacket, a night table, and the extremities of a stuffed bear (whose sawed-off head nuzzles into a broken goldfish bowl). The human figure, when it appears, seems almost a wry joke. William King, 39, for instance, makes...
Alarmed by these inroads-even in Canada, artificial-tree sales will surpass $1,000,000 this year-Canadian tree growers are trying to retaliate with better, less expensive trees. Farmers who cut and sell wild trees for extra income are being edged out by large tree plantations, where as many as a million evergreens are mechanically planted, protected and harvested, then carefully graded by size and shape. To protect their trees, shippers have begun to wrap them in a new plastic mesh that costs about 25? a tree but ensures arrival in good condition. At Montreal's MacDonald College...