Word: wildness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...died in circumstances that will remain murky." But Republicans, some of whom have openly courted the ATF's grassroots opposition, must conduct the hearings with dignity and "not appear to be sympathizers of the militias. What passes for wonderful stump rhetoric can, on television, make you look like a wild-eyed radical pretty fast." Still, she notes, many details of the federal operation will emerge for the first time, since the Administration has released almost no information publicly to date: "This has contributed to a great deal of confusion and mystery," says Shannon. "Probably unnecessary mystery...
...state's 67 counties. Part of what motivates this courtship is that Florida's Republican convention in November will hold the largest straw poll, just over two months before any voting takes place up north. And on March 12, the Florida primary will be the biggest wild card of the Super Tuesday set of elections. On that day Gramm hopes to win his own state of Texas, and Lamar Alexander must finish first in his native Tennessee. But if either is to break out of the pack, he must also beat Dole in Florida, a winner-take-all contest...
Omri's friend Patrick also gets in on the action, bringing to life his own figure, a cowboy from the Wild West named Boone...
...history, science and sociology. It blames many of the world's present-day problems on the industrial revolution and forecasts an Orwellian future, in which helpless humans are controlled by computers. Unabomber thus advocates a violent rebellion against technological society as the only way to restore what he calls "wild nature...
Then there are those who think the Indians are just imitating art--a rather generous term for the 1989 movie Major League. Playing on the preposterous notion that the Indians win the pennant, the flick features such characters as Willie Mays Hayes (Wesley Snipes), Wild Thing (Charlie Sheen) and Pedro Serrano (Dennis Haysbert), a Caribbean slugger who worships an idol called Jobu. Well, center fielder Lofton has lived up to the Willie Mays part, with 77 stolen bases, 77 runs batted in and a .345 batting average in 162 games over the past two seasons. Reliever Mesa has taken...