Word: wildness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...battle over the initiative is a grand donnybrook, sometimes messy, sometimes elevated; it seems as if everybody in California, from the Governor and the two Senators on down, is personally involved, and hardly a week goes by that there isn't a demonstration, a wild debate--last week's involved former Klansman David Duke--or a lawsuit between the two sides. There is a palpable sense that historic events are unfolding...
...secrecy was a triumph, and the planning and logistics really were impressive. But this wasn't the Normandy invasion, it was a wedding, and something more important has been overlooked: how incredibly romantic it must have been. The setting was one of the wild, unspoiled sea islands off Georgia--to visitors, they seem like remnants of the New World as it was before its discovery. This one, Cumberland Island, is inhabited by armadillos, wild boar and wild horses. Spanish moss hangs from its ancient oaks. There is a tiny wooden chapel, where the ceremony was held by candlelight. Crickets sang...
...took the now famous picture of them descending the chapel's simple wooden steps, John kissing the hand of his beaming bride. They walked over to a nearby fence, and Bessette stood next to Kennedy with her arms around him. Then she felt a tug on her bouquet. A wild horse had stretched its neck over the fence and was nibbling the flowers...
...time on a 32,000-acre ranch with his third wife, Karin, and their son, Armin. He was intrigued by DeBakey's visit but could not comment on Yeltsin's surgery, saying, "Right now I don't follow the news ... I'm a farmer with cattle and wild game to look after. I wish him luck...
Blake, as Ruth, provides a similar stabilizing presence, tacitly brandishing her baby-on-board girth. Yet hers is a false stability, as she keeps alive the children fantasies, dutifully breaking up scuffles between the Wild Child and Le Ballon Rouge, even as they occur in one person. Blake hits the note of maternal cajoling perfectly...