Word: wildness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...easy way of getting them to go. No elections they conduct would turn them out of office. Free elections will have to wait at least removal of the Ngos. However, after the attempted coups in 1960 and 1962, which the U.S. failed to support, and the wild vacillation of Americans policy on a coup in recent weeks, South Vietnamese military men are apparently not anxious to risk another...
...that the female cannot nibble it without bringing her four sensitive antennae in contact with microscopic pores in the male's shell. Through the pores seeps a subtle substance that is absorbed by the female's antennae and affects her central nervous system, raising a wild excitement...
...shadow cast on the ground seemed solid as flesh. So he molded in solids the natural penumbras of cast shadows, like a cape sloping from the figure's shoulders. Several years after Rodin had visited his studio and written Rosso that he was "struck by a wild admiration for you," the older sculptor employed the technique in his monumental Balzac, whose bulk heaves backwards out of solid shadow like an immense startled walrus...
...Life to Live. Jean-Luc Godard is the wild man of the new French cinema. After Breathless, the volcanic melodrama that inaugurated his career way back in 1960, he made two movies that even his friends admit are terrible. Then last year he suddenly settled down and made this brilliant film. My Life is a tour de style almost as startling as Breathless but more subtly accomplished, more purely felt. It is also a lyric poem in which the camera assiduously adores a beautiful woman. It is finally the tragic allegory of a soul whose pilgrimage to grace goes spiraling...
...subtlety or surprises, and sustains its humor as the story grows stronger and more absorbing; it deals with a student who comes home from Calcutta to find that his mother has decided that he should marry. He dislikes the girl she chooses and she dislikes his own choice, a wild, semi-literate tomboy. He marries the tomboy, who feels trapped and sneaks out on their wedding night to feed her pet squirrel. Bewildered and annoyed, the student goes back to Calcutta, telling her to write if she wants him. She mopes until she realizes that she does want...