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Word: wilds (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...defensive line is tough again, and the secondary is becoming a more valuable asset each week. So the defense should stop Princeton from running wild, at the very least, but Harvard's offense must do its share. It began doing it last Saturday. To keep Harvard winning, it will have to do so every week...

Author: By John L. Powers, | Title: Football Squad Humbles Quakers; Offense Sputters During 20-6 Win | 11/3/1969 | See Source »

...venerable tactic. When the crowd is making for the Long Island Expressway, give the side roads a try. If everybody else in your class seems bent on applying to Yale, apply to Princeton. In political terms, the strategy called for Marchi to belittle his opponents' wild promises by citing the fiscal realities-he, too, would like to preserve the 20-cent subway fare, but he wanted New Yorkers to know that might not be possible. He, too, desired open enrollment at City University, but he alone of the candidates would acknowledge the possibility that money might not be forthcoming...

Author: By James Lardner, | Title: John Lindsay at the Crossroads | 11/3/1969 | See Source »

INDIANS. Playwright Arthur Kopit has taken up the cause of the American Indian and has tried to mesh together segments of a vaudeville-styled Buffalo Bill Wild West show with segments of Hochhuth-Brechtian didactic polemicism. The idea is to spank the audience while making it laugh, but the whole thing refuses to cohere. Stacy Keach plays Buffalo Bill with relish, flamboyance and charm...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Oct. 31, 1969 | 10/31/1969 | See Source »

...WILD BUNCH. "Killing is no fun. I was trying to show what the hell it's like to get shot," says Director Sam Peckinpah about this film, which follows a ragtag bunch of bandits as they scrounge through the Southwest. While traveling with the bunch, Peckinpah provides long looks at scenes of uncontrolled frenzy in which the sense of chaotic violence is overwhelming...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Oct. 31, 1969 | 10/31/1969 | See Source »

...chesty Canadian girl named Vixen ("my friends call my Vix"; everyone's her friend after a minute or two) lives in the woody wild land with her bush pilot husband. Vix has lots of those healthy hormonal impulses, and she likes to work them out with her husband. Wholesome family life, right? But there's a sad catch: her husband's piloting business takes him away from the cabin and leaves Vixen alone. Clever Vixen finds other diversions, and the film follows her as she bounds in and out of beds and meadows with a strange assortment of friends...

Author: By Jim Fallows, | Title: Animals The Vixen | 10/28/1969 | See Source »

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