Word: wildness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Moran's The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari seeks to unify these two influences in one wild story. Penny Price (Phoebe Jonas) is the owner of a penny arcade which has been struggling financially ever since her lover died years ago. At the height of her despair, Caligari (Alvin Epstein) and his dubious troupe blast into town, demanding to use the arcade as a setting for their show. Caligari tricks many of the townspeople into participating in his performance, and they all realize too late that they will not make it through Caligari's twisted and absurd variety act alive...
...country charts and onto the fast track to stardom. The song was written for Patsy Cline, who died before she could record it, but it seems made for Rimes. The melody is thick and generous, and even if you're not into country, when Rimes' wild-berry-sweet voice yodels through the hook-filled chorus--"blooOOooOOoo"--you feel like putting on a cowboy hat and line dancing...
...Wild, Wild Internet" (February 20), Ethan M. Tucker explains that "restrictions on telephone speech date back almost as far as the invention of the telephone itself," referring to an 1883 New York District Court decision that upheld a telephone company's prohibition on the use of "improper or vulgar" language...
When the police arrived, Brovkin said he greeted them, expecting they were there to help him. "But [Kim] complained that the customer got wild and I was arrested," he said...
...year thereafter, the Harvard Crimson finished on top of a wild ECAC regular-season chase with an overall record of 14-7-6. Alas, it lost to eighth-seeded RPI, 4-3 in overtime, in its one and only postseason game--the single-game upset which prompted the ECAC to change its postseason format to a best-of-three quarterfinal...