Word: wolfing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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When Mrs. Martin Wolf went to court in New Jersey to force her estranged husband to support her, she got a shock. Architect Wolf, she discovered, had already divorced her more than a year earlier in Alabama. Moreover, she had "agreed" to the action. Her signature was on the papers...
...runs his flock far back among the granite desolations. The police come after him with tommy guns, and after a forced march the sheep collapse and die. Ruined, the shepherd bitterly determines to ruin others. In the movie's savage final scene he comes down like a hungry wolf on a fold and steals an entire flock from a man as poor as he. "Now it's your problem!" he snarls cruelly as he runs away...
...Dying Wolf. In Dona Rosita's three acts very little happens onstage: a woman begins sewing the trousseau for her wedding, the man she is engaged to leaves for America and does not return; the woman grows old in the delusion that some day he will come back to her. Time is the real protagonist. Language gives the play its life. "Everything is finished," says the old maid. "Yet I go to bed and get up again with the most terrible of all feelings-the feeling of having hope. Hope pursues me, encircles me, bites me; like a dying...
Widespread unemployment once made Italian workers terrified of their bosses, but terror has turned to testiness. With jobs aplenty in present-day Italy, strikes are as common as wolf calls on the Via Veneto. Last week 800,000 textile and chemical workers struck to back demands that would push labor costs up 70%. Radio and TV employees entered the second month of a bitter dispute with management over higher pay and job reclassifications...
...such noises shattered the sleep of the pioneers a century or more ago. But the tire screech of a hard-braked auto mobile is probably no more disturbing than the howl of a timber wolf rallying the pack. And no American today need lie awake worrying whether the soft fluting of a small owl is really the signal that a band of Indians is closing in for a scalping spree...