Word: wilder
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There is good news and bad news in the MacBride recommendations. The good is that the commission members rejected the wilder extremes of the Masmoudi plan. Third World representatives went along with their Western colleagues in declaring that "censorship or arbitrary control of information should be abolished" and that "accurate, faithful and balanced reporting... necessarily involves access to unofficial as well as official sources of information." The only recorded dissent from these ringing endorsements of press freedom was that of the Soviet representative, Sergei Losev, director of TASS...
...truth is wilder than Buchwald's fiction, then some of his ideas approach the ludicrousness of reality. He predicted, for example, that by next year "the Post Office will deliver mail only one day a year. It'll be called mail day and it'll be a holiday like Christmas. And you'll decorate your post boxes with holly wreathes and mistletoe, and we'll all come down in the morning and open our bills together...
...them describes the charge, "Bambicide." Sayles has appropriated the discursive, episodic format of many recent films (and the spirit of that charming, intelligent Swiss com edy Jonah Who Will Be 25 in the Year 2000), but he constructs individual scenes with the deftness of a Billy Wilder. His dialogue often circles back on, and en riches, itself. He creates more than a dozen complex, contradictory characters through their speech rhythms, the way they walk and sit and prepare food, and the diminishing space between the heads of two people trying to decide whether to spend the night with each other...
...about running. The Rev. Cain's daughter Rachel, 8, is a small celebrity in Claypool. Year before last, as part of a book-reading contest in the first grade, she was able to dash through 150 volumes, including Uncle Wiggily and The Yearling. Now she picks Laura Wilder's These Happy Golden Years...
...many voters, Government now appears to be not an ally but an enemy whose tax-and-spend policies foster wilder and wilder roller-coaster rides of inflation and recession. With the nation turning against Big Government, the Democrats have run out of acceptable new ideas?their stock in trade for so long ?because the ideas have always involved creation of an ever larger bureaucracy. Ironically, it is Ronald Reagan, with his nostalgic vision of a day when the individual was great and the Government small, who now appears as the innovator, proposing risky but exciting new courses?...