Word: wildness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Urgently needing the last of this fourgame set,Walsh looked to the junior righthander Kalyvas toprovide some muscle on the hill. Kalyvas obliged,working three and two-thirds innings of four-hitball before feeling a pop in his right elbow afterfiring a wild pitch...
With one run in on the wild pitch and runnerson second and third, Kalyvas gave way to Lennon,who inherited a two-strike count on sophomorefirst baseman Mike Kahney...
...Wild Things...
Desperately tries to be a clever camp thriller, Matt Dillon, Kevin Bacon, Neve Campbell and newcomer Denise Richards star as the dynamic "wild things" that turn a South Florida affluent suburb into a hotbed of corruption and controversy. The movie is just one big ode to cleavage, bikini carwashes, bisexuals, wet T-shirts and sweaty threesomes. Richards fares the best out of the four in a role that might be remembered for the rest of her career (whether this movie will start it or end it is a whole other question). Almost deserves a cult following, almost...
Lethem's portrayal of the colony evokes the dusty, wood-ridden, disorganized towns of the Wild West glorified in the Western film genre. However, the colony also reminds us that these towns constituted an actual frontier for the colonists, a territory uncharted for them in which to institute their conception of civilization from a clean slate. The inter-actions between the Americans of the Archbuilder colony seem so elemental, summon such basic dilemmas and yield such unproductive results that the reader can only wonder why the Wild West was not indeed wilder...