Word: wilds
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...kinds of runs would be enough, but the very next inning Eagle second baseman Chuck Mitchell rapped a one-out single to left and moved quickly to third when first baseman Jim Conroy yanked the next pitch for a double down the left field line. Stewart then threw a wild pitch to score him and make...
Then, too, the shower of new magazines (334 in 1976, 272 last year) is not much to cheer about. Most of the fledglings are small (average circulation for last year's crop: 10,000), parsimonious (typical rate: 7? a word) and narrowly focused (Sludge, Modern Drummer, Wild World of Skateboarding...
...Hearty drinking and hedonism--it was a simple goal. A little honest lust had a definite appeal. There had been too many nights spent squinting at obscure volumes in Lamont, too many nights hanging out at House grilles and Harvard Square bars, too many pointless dinner conversations, too many wild spring days already spent in gloomy rooms and lecture halls. Our 20-year-old libidos were bottled up, our wildness restrained...
...place to linger. Old people there stand out in a cruel light. It is best to come in fired up, blow off steam quickly, and then leave quickly, rather than stay on a few extra days to sit sipping gin and tonics and waiting for more craziness and wild adventures that never quite materialize. In the end, Namo and I probably stayed one day too long. Four days was enough to get some good sun, meet some interesting people, and find the good nightclubs, the bad clubs, and, accidentally, the gay clubs; five days was enough to drink a little...
Just now, Travolta holds the winning hand; or most of it, anyhow. There is no wild card. No overheated tales of profligacy and indulgence. No seamy revelations. The usual insinuations, to be sure, but no backstairs gossip that is verifiable, no sagas of ruinous excess and careening self-destruction. Superstars very often provide their own portfolio of legends to join the ones fashioned for the screen: the abandon of Brando, the hipster brashness of James Dean. If the material isn't available, then the superstars get tagged with it?De Niro is alleged to be Garboesque, Pacino sullen and distant...