Word: wildness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Back in the 1920s, Cecil B. Demille made movies featuring wild pagan bacchanals with partly nude women. It was not immoral to show them, he explained, because he was only telling stories from the Bible. For titillating his audience while piously claiming a higher motive, ole Cecil B. had nothing on Starr. LARRY RAINER Burlington...
...PRESS GOES WILD...
...century of political, literary, and cultural history. The picture we derive from her biography is that of a writer who, far from existing for only a single moment of historical controversy, lived richly and fully--and in very interesting times. We whirl with the young Hall through the wild nightlife of Jazz Age London, watch her early involvement with the women's suffrage movement, and chafe with her when, at the outbreak of the First World War, she is prevented by her sex from being able to fight at the front...
...wild one up at their place in just the second game of the year, and then we had a much easier time down here at our place when they were going through a tough time," said Harvard Coach Ronn Tomassoni. "But like every coaching staff in America, once the season ends, you start to hype the playoffs as an entirely new season. I am sure that they are pumping that into their kids right...
...central characters in Easy Rider are as remote as the freedom they are seeking. Wyatt (Peter Fonda) is a vague, unshaven pothead who likes to refer to himself as "Captain America." His manic sidekick Billy (Dennis Hopper) has a droopy Stephen Crane mustache and shiny eyes fixed on some wild interior vision. Flush from the profits of dope selling, the cyclists symbolically cast off their wristwatches and head for that persistent American symbol of adventure, the Road. In his first major role, Jack Nicholson proves that he knows far more about acting than either of his co-stars. His marijuana...