Word: wilderness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...noblest in Sabbath, and perhaps in Roth, is the coming-full-circle, the rejoining of ends. Recalling his Jersey Shore childhood, Sabbath is a modern day Thornton Wilder: "There was a man in Belmar who sold only bananas, and he hired Morty and Morty hired me. The job was to go along the streets hollering 'Bananas, twenty-five cents a bunch!' What a great job. I still sometimes dream about that job. You got paid to shout 'Bananas...
...truly blind and deaf to the plans, why did the security service fail to act? This key, and so far unanswered, question has spawned a host of conspiracy theories. Right-wing circles are calling Raviv an agent provocateur who purposefully incited anti-Rabin fanaticism. An alternate, even wilder theory holds that Shin Bet actually plotted a faked assassination attempt in order to smear opponents of the peace process. Under this scenario agents supposedly gave Amir a gun loaded with blanks, but his brother betrayed the Shin Bet by substituting real bullets...
...Phoenix is a kinder, gentler club," said Gogliormella. "But most of the wilder stuff happens at initiation...
Leonardo da Vinci stood on one end of the stage, Mickey Mantle on the other. The Mick seemed a little out of place in the company of Da Vinci, Abraham Lincoln, Frederick Douglass, Laura Ingalls Wilder and Mahatma Gandhi, but this was my son's third-grade class biography project, titled Who Am I?, and an understanding teacher had allowed him to portray his favorite baseball player, a preference passed down like DNA from both his mother and his father. "I was born in Spavinaw, Oklahoma, in 1931," said this child born in New York City...
...awful "serious" roles in order to get respect. Woody Allen went from making great, loopy comedies to putting out insufferable Ingmar Bergmanesque dramas, as strained as facelifts and as painful as enemas. Robin Williams turned to sentimental pabulum like "Dead Poets' Society" and "Awakenings." Lemmon turned from Billy Wilder comedies like "Some Like It Hot" to appalling pieces of work like 1973's abominable "Save the Tiger," (for which he won the Academy Award as Best Actor) and Constantine Costa-Gavras' 1982 "Missing...