Word: wildness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...pilgrim in the forest of alternative cures can wander a long, strange way. Once you've set foot there -- if only to see a state-licensed acupuncturist upon your doctor's recommendation -- you may find yourself lost in the wild thicket on the fringe. Alternative medicine is a subculture. Its disparate practitioners know one another, attend the same holistic seminars, frequent the same bookshops. The acupuncturist will suggest that you see a shiatsu person he knows on the other side of town. The shiatsu masseuse will encourage you to buy certain herbs. Before you know it, you've suspended disbelief...
Yesterday's blistering cold and rain was caused by a "wild, wild storm in the Atlantic...probably one of the worst storms we've seen in the Atlantic since the 1978 Blizzard," according to yesterday's New England Weekend Weather forecast. The telephone forecast service predicted even harsher weather conditions today...
...about as wild a 1-0 game...
Taken in pieces, Chang's narrative can be prosaic. But in its entirety, the author achieves a Dickensian tone with detailed portraits and intimate remembrances, with colorful minor characters and intricate yet fascinating side plots. There is a Chinese art of forgetting. Wild Swans is proof that there is an art of memory as well...
...other hand, the early work of James Rosenquist and Claes Oldenburg has lost none of its power. With Oldenburg the vitality comes from his wild metaphors of the world as body -- hard things drooping into softness, small things turning mountainous, a vision that seems to reach back to Bruegel and can make a crude enlarged plaque of some cuts of supermarket meat look like the site of a massacre. With Rosenquist, it is the crude oppositions, engrossing in their pure Americanness. The woman's face rising out of an orange swamp of spaghetti in I Love You with My Ford...