Word: wildness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...quarterfinal round, Madhavan also placed second behind her fellow finalist from Arkansas, but she earned enough points to give her the first wild-card position...
Republican presidential primaries are normally royalist affairs, staid rituals of continuity posing briefly as wild free-for-alls. While Democrats can often be counted on to stage long catfights that rip apart the party so deeply that reassembly by November is impossible, Republicans prefer one-act passion plays in primogeniture. From watching Democrats, the G.O.P. has learned the cost of indulging in party soul searching for more than a few weeks...
After a few reels, though, things get goofy. Suddenly every room is preposterously dark; the most powerful men in town can't afford decent light bulbs. Pacino's performance turns crazily manic: when he gives an oration for the dead child, his wild hand gestures read like sign language for the myopic. And director Harold Becker should know that no movie is allowed to use You'll Never Walk Alone unless the intent is comic...
...exceptionally high fatality rate to keep the disease from killing far more efficiently. "The outbreak itself is not extremely unusual," says Time's Andrea Dorfman. "No one knows how animals become infected, and this outbreak may enable researchers to get an inkling of where the virus resides in the wild, which is an important step towards finding a vaccine...
...they don't jaywalk, as free as the proverbial birds? It could be a slogan for a clever opponent of Menino's in the next election who seizes upon his weakness: "Menino doesn't know Boston. I know Boston, and Boston jaywalks. Vote for Trillertrot." You can hear the wild cheering...