Word: wildness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...quite right to close the book with this touch of cute domesticity. Let's remember who Katherine Power was and what she did. This was not a flower child caught up some wild afternoon in a robbery. She was found to have in her apartment three rifles, a carbine, a pistol, a shotgun and a huge store of ammunition. She is accused of having fire bombed a National Guard armory. She took part in a bank robbery in which a hero cop, father of nine, was shot dead. This is someone very hard who has now softened -- out of feelings...
...appears in striped tights, a harness top and a winged hat that makes him look more like an underworld gogo dancer than a traditional ringmaster. A master of vocal effects, Bazinet plays an imaginary game of catch with the spectators and effortlessly incorporates an audience member into a hilarious Wild West shoot...
...about the number of dead trees on library shelves than laud the live ones that turn color outside. The trees that do eke out an existence here have a gritty urban sensibility. They're A Tree Grows in Brooklyn trees, struggling against pollution and graffiti; noble California redwoods or wild New Hampshire oaks they...
...about human nature that sounds unlike anything Mellencamp has done before. His voice grainy and low over a smacking drumbeat and soulful female backup vocals, Mellencamp conjures a godforsaken land of dashed aspirations and sordid pleasures, where "all the people went completely nuts./ They all busted out on a wild night/ Riding high on a golden calf." The song also echoes the national disenchantment with politicians and the economy. "To hell with all the politicians and the lies," Mellencamp sings. "Recovery, recovery, I don't know about any recovery...
...first round, a best-of-five series, will feature the three division winners and the team with the next best record. The "wild-card" team will play the division winner with the best record; the two remaining division winners will compete in the other first-round series. The winners of each series will play each other in the customary best-of-seven League Championships, with the World Series following...