Word: wildness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Amid the tearing down, Freedom, Love and Peace were set up as idols. The worshipers were themselves semidivine: the new noble savages rhapsodized by the Who, the Stones, the denizens of Haight-Ashbury. As Steppenwolf sang in 1968, "Like a true nature child/ We were born, born to be wild/ We have climbed so high/ Never want...
...fire and calm yourself." But the fire cannot be fully extinguished. Though they abhor its destructiveness, those who lived through 1968 are still hooked on the energy, prisoners of their old freedoms. They may now feel safe, but they are sorry. For they were born, born to be wild...
...develop some clinical symptoms but not the full disease and have every prospect of living out their normal life-span of 40 to 60 years. They are, however, useless for further research, and it seems imprudent to release the AIDS-infected primates, who were born in captivity, into the wild. So the Southwest Foundation for Biomedical Research, which breeds the chimps and contracts them out to research organizations, charges customers $30,000 per animal to set up what amounts to a retirement plan to defray the cost of caring for the primates during their golden years. While subject to experiments...
...pastime that the Japanese learned from the English by way of New Zealand, the maze craze shows signs of catching on in the U.S. Since August, thousands of visitors have paid $7 apiece to get lost in the first American Wooz, which stands for Wild and Original Object with Zoom. The $13 million park in Vacaville, Calif., offers two degrees of difficulty. Claustrophobes need not fear, because three escape routes are provided. Price of a franchise: $45,000 plus construction costs...
...himself on the original budget within three months, he completed it for $750,000 less -- and now operates the rink at an annual profit of $500,000 (for charity). When authorities tried to honor him by planting a delicate Japanese pine in his name, though, Trump balked. "He went wild because he felt the tree was wrong, a hunchback," recalls Parks Commissioner Henry Stern. "He wanted it pulled out. He wanted something like a sequoia...