Word: wildness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...temperate East Coast, I've grown accustomed to the state's extremes--of topography, of climate, of behavior--and even somewhat proud of them. When the highway speed limit was removed last winter (not increased, removed), I cheered. When wolf packs were reintroduced into Yellowstone, I felt a wild thrill. And though the tourist board will tell you otherwise, there are indeed a lot of weirdos here: outcasts and outsiders of every stripe, a lot of them refugees from milder climes where their eccentricities drew stares (Ted Turner and Jane Fonda have a ranch nearby, not to mention...
...impact of the two Michaels--Me and Mo, as some Hollywood wags have begun calling them--will be even more apparent when ABC picks its fall schedule later this spring. Those trips to Space Mountain will get old fast, but Mr. Eisner's (and Mr. Ovitz's) Wild Ride is just beginning...
Wallace has the nuts-and-bolts romanticism of a crackpot inventor; Gromit, a bookish sort, gets his friend out of wild scrapes when not reading Crime and Punishment (by Fido Dogstoyevsky) or Pluto's Republic or Electronics for Dogs. The typical plot: Wallace will be seized by some selfish idea--flying to the moon for a cheese snack in A Grand Day Out or renting out Gromit's room to a pistol-packin' penguin in The Wrong Trousers or courting a sheep-napping femme fatale in A Close Shave--and Gromit will pitch us a conspiratorial sigh with a mute...
...score remained 8-7 until the bottom if the eighth, when Harvard exploded for five runs, four unearned, capitalizing off wild pitching--New Hampshire walked the first four batters and threw a wild pitch in the inning--to put some needed insurance runs on the score-board...
Rather than basking in transient glamour, the Coens have focused on making films. And why not? They may be the most talented team working today. A string of successes including the wild "Raising Arizona," the brilliant "Miller's Crossing" and the endearing "Barton Fink" ended recently with a near miss, "The Hudsucker Proxy." After that film, which required a huge budget (by Coen standards) and lots of sound stage shooting, it is no wonder that they opted for a smaller film like "Fargo...