Word: wildness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...have easy sex; they have potent drugs; they seem to have total freedom from parental discipline. What they don't have is fun. Screwing around has become mandatory, and thus joyless, like house chores or homework. A truly radical, dangerous movie about teens would show the lure of the wild life while avoiding the twin tones of sensationalism and sentimentality. Clark's film doesn't do that. And that's the matter with Kids, and the other teen films at Cannes...
...time, you want and expect evil to be confounded. What you get instead is the hero being tortured to death. The suspense is this: Will he crack, cry out in pain, thus robbing posterity of an inspiring example of masochism-sorry, heroism? Come on. That's Mel Gibson the wild horses are trying to pull apart. Of course he's going to die stoically. Everybody knows that a non-blubbering clause is standard in all movie stars' contracts. Too bad there isn't one banning self-indulgence when they direct...
...course, the crowing feature of all sitcoms is that everything is resolved within a wild and wacky 30 minutes. This phenonmenon ensures that no American will be burdened by even the slightest worry, if some slight emotional concern did happen to develop during the course of an episode. Next week, in most cases, they start all over again. If it weren't for the factors' aging sitcoms wold have complete inertia. Not that aging makes too much of a difference--the characters don't lose any vacuousness as they mauture physically...
...January 1990, Dan Payne was assigned to begin a two-month training course. No one was brought in to replace him. When he returned in March, he was pulled off the Ames investigation and sent overseas to pursue another lead in the mole hunt that proved to be a wild goose chase...
...still no answer to the crucial question of how Kimfumu came by the virus in the first place. As a lab technician, he may have been exposed to a contaminated blood sample, but the ultimate origin of Ebola remains a mystery. Scientists suspect that it has probably circulated in wild animals such as rodents for years, and only makes the jump into humans when the two populations come into contact. Observes Yale epidemiologist Dr. Robert Ryder: "These viruses basically say to man, 'You stick to your territory and I'll stick to mine.' But then man begins to encroach...