Word: wildness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...just have to settle for relaxing on the beach all day and hitting the nightspots at night--rough life. Beware, without the crowds of Miami, Daytona Beach and Ft. Lauderdale, Sarasota also lacks the rambuctious college spring break crowd, a big disadvantage if you're looking for a wild release from the rigors of spring semester...
...sixty drawings, prints and collages that comprise the exhibit are organized around four themes: "The Wild West," "The Metropolis," "Social and Political Critique," and "Popular Culture: Jazz, Dance, and Film." The images depicted run the gamut from reverence to condemnation of an American culture viewed with ambivalence...
...clear theme of the power and modernity of the American culture. The artists perceived the United States as an industrial mecca and a military power within which men are mecanical, corrupt, and agressive. This view was supported by the writings of the "muckrakers" and the untamed violence of the "Wild West" lore...
...agree on this much: The Soviet communist leadership's agreement to accept a multi-party political system is a good thing. Maybe we should burst into wild cries of delight, or maybe we should applaud cautiously and daintily. Regardless, nobody doubts that a dose of democracy, whatever the size, is an exciting step in the right direction...
...grown into the most exciting development in American pop music in more than a decade. Nearly a third of the records currently on Billboard's chart of the top 100 black albums are by rap artists. The biggest pop single of 1989 was a rap song by Tone-Loc, Wild Thing, which sold more than 2 million copies...