Word: wildness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Rhetoric caused even less of a stir than the specific proposals. Whether it was wild-card challenger William B. Cunningham or incumbent Kathleen L. Born, the candidates all seemed to be reading from the same scripts...
...which is a birthday that compels almost any woman to step back and examine whether the drape and line of her life fit the woman she once dreamed of becoming. The cutting edge of female Baby Boomers, of whom Hillary is the most famous, approached adulthood with a wild, subversive earnestness. These women would change the world, have careers, build strong marriages, raise good children and keep their sense of humor. Hillary has been a beneficiary of these expectations, and as First Lady also their most conspicuous victim. Her Wellesley education and Yale law degree put her onstage...
...Matraca Berg picked up a Song of the Year trophy for Strawberry Wine, co-written with Gary Harrison. That was a ho-hum: the Nashville scribe has penned prime bedroom and barroom laments for Reba McEntire (Last One to Know), Trisha Yearwood (XXX's and OOO's), Martina McBride (Wild Angels), Patty Loveless (You Can Feel Bad) and other country thrushes. But that same night, Berg sang Back When We Were Beautiful, about a widow recalling her one and only love, and put so much ache and age into it you could hear a collective heart breaking. Now, with...
DIED. JOHNNY VANDER MEER, 82, Cincinnati Reds southpaw who pitched the only back-to-back no-hitters in major-league history; in Tampa, Fla. Vander Meer's career was ordinary, except for two extraordinary days in 1938, when he got a handle on his wild fastball, goose-egging both the Boston Braves and the Brooklyn Dodgers...
...lovely dinner with the fam. During the course of the evening it is exposed that Marty and his sister Jackie have had an ongoing incestuous relationship for about ten years. Both have been mentally scarred in their own way, although Jackie obviously more visibly so with her wild fantasies of the Kennedy assassination. For Marty, home represents the insane and the chaotic, even as he is passionately drawn to the seductive charms of his family. He is searching for normalcy shown by his sweet, cookie-cutter girlfriend whose "breath smells like powdered sugar," but he is ultimately unable to realize...