Word: wildness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Square study: "Playboy" magazine, lately the recognized journal of high-brow and middle-brow culture, is how under prosecution in New York for a photo feature on the export version of a recent Jayne Mansfield movie. Freely for sale, cheap in the Square is Jayne Mansfield's Wild, Wild World, with an obscenity density of 27.60 and the same pictures "Playboy" dared to run. "Playboy," in attempting to broaden the sexual experience of its audience, reached too far down and has to be slapped back up again. Fanny Hill's malefaction is both to broaden and to elevate. The book...
...styling. Manhattan's Janus Mann Eyelash Salon sells models in mink (for $50) and sable (for $80) to customers who want to match their coats. Women like them so much that they are wearing as many as three sets (layer upon layer) at a time, achieving a wild, bushy-eyed effect. Their lids may droop under the burden and their vision blur, but there seems to be no end in sight for the whole blinking business...
...Through artful cajolery and the promise of a creative hand in the production, Caldwell had both Sutherland and her husband, Richard Bonynge, working at double time. The results showed it: though normally a phlegmatic actress, Sutherland made Bellini's gloriously mad Elvira anguished and giddy, impish and frenzied, wild-eyed and playful. Showing a new command of her coloratura range, Sutherland moved against shifting configurations of chorus and cast until the audience erupted in gasps and bursts of applause...
...other great eccentric, Samuel Johnson, dismissed him as a provincial from an "intellectually barren" town. His current biographers tend to side with Coleridge, and there is little difference between them, but their books are less interesting as studies of genius than as revelations of the wild theorizing that passed for reason as England's age of scientific reason began...
PHILADELPHIA, Feb. 14--For 35 minutes tonight the Crimson basketball team duelled Penn's Ivy League co-leaders on even terms, but in the five minutes that county the Quakers ran wild. The result was a 60-49 Penn win and Harvard's fourth Ivy League defeat...