Word: wildness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Spicy Mexican foods normally stimulate the taste buds, seldom controversy. But a television advertisement for Taco Bell's saucy new Wild Burrito caused more excitement in the African-American community than the company intended. The spot featured dark-skinned island "natives" with painted faces, dancing in loincloths, flames belching from their mouths. African Americans immediately attacked Taco Bell's attempt at multicultural advertising. Oakland city council official Fred Ferguson described it as "plain and simple racist." The ad was withdrawn...
Pretty Funny, Guys: Halfnight himself missed the Brown game with a touch of the flu and a bad back, but several sources spread a wild rumor that his absence was due to some sort of an irregular heart condition and Crimson officials had benched him to avoid any possible liability...
...course, the media went wild, trying to dig up every detail and gain corroborations from Whitman staffers. Witness the remarkable reactions: Whitman's brother, also an aide, said that much of the campaign's work went toward "getting out the vote on one side, and voter sup...and keeping the vote light in other areas." Does Mr. Webster B. Whitman, in this little snippet, shy away from the term, "voter suppression?" Carl Golden, the governor-elect's chief spokesperson, said, "Sometimes voter suppression is as important in this business as vote-getting...
...dropped out of graduate school years ago and fetched up in a bare cabin in the northern end of the state. She and a friend fished, hunted and foraged to feed themselves. Living that way "makes you very alert and aware of everything around you, from tree branches and wild mushrooms to animal tracks," Proulx says. "It's excellent training for the eye. Most of us stagger around deaf and blind...
Show Business: Martin Lawrence, a joker who is wild...