Word: wildness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...officers of the environmental police. A representative of the chemical industry, who made profuse ritual protestations of humility and reassurance, was shouted down." Going to look at the onetime Berlin Wall, the reporter finds that it is now a nature preserve. "A unique biotope," says an official. "There are wild rabbits here, hedgehogs, opossums." The problem is that the environmentalists' efforts to get rid of the Wall are being blocked by art historians. "They regard the Wall as a work of art," the official complains, "because of the graffiti." An expatriated Scot finally explains to the American that the "famous...
...clock I was in my home, a remote hillside house alone on a ridge, surrounded by acres of wild brush. The fire started along our road, just half a mile away, at 6:02. Two friends, arriving at that moment, pointed to the jagged line of orange tearing down the hillside like a waterfall and splitting the brush open like a knife through fruit. Then the electricity went off. Then the phones went dead. By 6:10, huge curls of flame were hurtling over the ridge a few feet from the house...
...Tina Turner and Janis Joplin, "although I couldn't speak a word of English." She got started in East Berlin's jazz circuit and has since emerged as an international rock star. Meantime, she has made more changes than Madonna, festooning herself with chains and wearing metal bras, wild wigs and ghoulish makeup. On her latest album, Hagen pounds out a number titled Gorbachev Rap. After all, she explains, it's important to encourage Mikhail...
...this trip necessary? A handful of world leaders might ask themselves that question as they converge on Houston this weekend for the 16th Economic Summit of Industrialized Nations. Their visit will be attended by Wild West fanfare and reported by more than 3,000 journalists, but is any real work likely to get done? Many past summits, in fact, produced results as barren as the North Texas Panhandle. If the chief executives of the world's most powerful economies simply spend three days hammering out a pious communique and frolicking at rodeos and barbecues, then maybe this form of junket...
...chastised Spence for rambling off the issues and playing to the jury. When Spence suggested that he was not being treated fairly, the judge leaped to his feet, a red tide of fury rising from black robe to white hair, slammed down a sheaf of papers and snapped, "Such wild, improper, misleading statements should not be made in front of the jury...