Word: wildness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Wild Duck is something of an anomaly among Ibsen's dramas. Those who have seen or read such signature pieces as A Doll House or An Enemy of the People will find the most memorable features of those earlier works either absent or grotesquely parodied in this odd, often confounding, yet strangely moving tragicomedy. Mingling, even juxtaposing, humor and pathos, undercutting the concept of the heroic ideal with lacerating irony, and completely devoid of the compelling central figure so key to the other plays, it is also arguably the trickiest one to interpret and perform. The current American Repertory Theater...
...passion vs. propriety, the close-ups of so many stern faces and one shining one--all this calls to mind The Passion of Joan of Arc, the 1928 silent masterpiece by another Dane, Carl Dreyer. Von Trier's film isn't in that class, but he gets points for wild ambition. Like Bess, the writer-director has undergone a conversion. His early pictures, Element of Crime and Zentropa, were wondrously busy examples of cinematic Euroflash; here he goes for sweeping visual sentiment. He wants to press you up against the characters, to make you feel the heat under their pale...
...have here the dystopia of youth run wild, of children armed only with remote controls ruling the world. It is hard to tell whether this is a real fear of Hicks' or simply a nagging sour feeling from spending too many hours yelling at spoiled teenagers from the suburbs. Still, this is a common enough concern. Robert Bly, for one, has written of the dangers of living in a world without active rites of passage. According to such thinkers, we live in a world of manchildren, of overgrown high-chair tyrants...
...general revealed that over the past three years, eight male instructors have been disciplined for harassment at the Lackland Air Force Base in San Antonio, Texas. And the San Antonio Express-News reported that at a medic school at Fort Sam Houston, five sergeants were disciplined for fraternization and wild behavior on a February bus trip to Mexico...
...strong. The fleck-size insects spend their time doing what fruit flies do: they eat, they breed, they fly. But they do it for a lot longer. Fruit flies in Rose's colony may survive for up to 140 days. In the absence of predators, fruit flies in the wild get just 70. A person with this kind of longevity would easily exceed 150 years...