Word: wildness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...third, Harvard used three singles, from captain Hal Carey, Binkowski and Keck, as well as two stolen bases and a wild pitch, to set up Huling's two-out, two-run double and a 5-3 lead...
...While the bats continued the wild ride they begun last Thursday, when they scored 13 runs against Providence, senior righthander Garett Vail was having his way on the bump, tossing a complete-game while scattering eight hits and allowing just two earned runs...
...distilling its sprawling, general history into the essence of this well-knit chronicle, Berger should be commended for his painstaking research, which allows him, through our personal tour-guide Jack, to make a complicated and convoluted history seem both very straightforward and very real; distant and lionized legends like Wild Bill Hickok become poignantly human through Jack's unique perspective and experience. In his novel The Return of little Big Man, Thomas Berger proves himself to be a master of the storytelling craft through an engaging narrative that tells history through fiction in the most fulfilling...
...show, the audience was reluctant to let the band go. Their exit was accompanied by wild applause and screaming until they were wooed back onto stage. Both encore pieces were from Bring It On, concluding with the whimsical "Whippin' Piccadilly," a tribute to drug day ambling around their native...
...present moment. While most of the stories contain middle-aged characters dealing with mid-life types of problems, this story follows Natan/Nathan, a young American living in Jerusalem who Narrowly avoids a nearby suicide bombing. The story, divided into numerous short segments, is told in choppy, metaphorical phrases: "Like wild birds frightened. Like people possessed, tearing at their forms trying to set something free." The separations of the text and the style of Englander's sentences capture the fragmentation of Natan's world as he struggles to put the pieces back together and act as if life went on normally...