Word: wolfish
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...what's the scoop? Is mine a case of being a liberal sheep in a wolfish conservative's clothing, of being a hypocrite? Or is a Harvard liberal education claiming the mind of yet another previously close-minded conservative...
...Suzuki and Plenty O'Toole! Mary Goodnight and Holly Goodhead! They were as indispensable and interchangeable as 007's other accessories, the Walther PPK and the Aston Martin. Pussy Galore might be a judo expert who could toss Bond like a crepe, but he would merely toss back a wolfish double entendre: "We must have a few fast falls together some time." In its Connery years, Bond comprised equal parts of Jack Kennedy's playboy glamour and Hugh Hefner's Playboy Philosophy...
...Extraordinarily quick, nay, incomprehensible cutting, imparting an abstract quality to the violence -- a terrible beauty, as the impressionable might put it. It also implies that beneath the director's wolfish exterior there lurks a sheepish artist as well as an existential philosopher eager to prove that morality is a sometime thing, determined by a trigger finger's itch...
...little girl named Marguerite Poirier was attacked by a wild, wolf-like beast as she tended to her flocks in the small French village of Paulot, in the province of Guyenne. Later that month a strange boy, Jean Grenier, was brought before the local judge for the crime. The wolfish animal, it was thought by the locals, had been young Jean. For Jean, it seems, was a werewolf...
Before the sun comes up, furniture is overturned, leftovers smeared, a door splintered by knives and the air filled with wolfish howls. The revels end on a note of Maggie and Jiggs, with the woman of the house surveying her fouled nest and beaning her husband with...