Word: wildness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Cornell fans went wild, but the Cornell lead was old news just three minutes later...
Event is an understatement. A carnival. A three-ring circus. A hoedown. A wild chicken farm. A dead fish emporium. A place not to take the kids. We ain't talking "Bambi Meets Mr. Rogers," folks...
This year's Beanpot has changed all that. This writer has researched the results of every 'Pot game played. He has studied the architectural structure of the Garden. He has consulted the stars, observed the flight patterns of wild geese and memorized the subway map of Boston...
...mode of westerns like The Wild Bunch, Lonesome Dove notes the passing of an era. "Durn people makin' towns everywhere," says McCrae. "It's our fault too. We chased out the Indians . . . hung all the good bandits . . . killed off most of the people that made this country interesting to begin with." But Lonesome Dove is surprisingly nonrevisionist in its picture of the West. The good guys still perform stunning heroics with six- shooters, and Indians are faceless villains who whoop when they ride. Yet in its everyday details -- the dust and the spit, the casual conversations about whoring, the pain...
...talent was admired by Rembrandt as well as the great French painter Nicolas Poussin, Testa's proud and aloof nature often made him the stereotypical outsider artist. As Professor Cropper points out in the exhibit catalog, Testa's vacillating career and his eventual suicide fostered the "myth of a wild uncontrolled romantic spirit." This myth, too, hurt the popularity...