Word: wildness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...macho belligerents of Mortal Kombat to movie life. And what's with all these kilts? First Rob Roy, then Gibson's Braveheart. It's one more genre, like westerns (and astronaut films), that studios make mostly because veteran stars and directors want to. Walter Hill has a new western, Wild Bill, with Jeff Bridges, and the principals hope it will imitate the popular oater Tombstone and not Wyatt Earp, Costner's pricey flop on the same subject...
Most humans contract rabies after being bitten by their domestic pet which had been attacked by a wild animal earlier, according to Mark W. McGabe, director of the Cambridge Animal Commission...
Residents should also avoid stray or wild animals, keep the lids on their trash cans securely fastened and contact animal control officials if they see animals who appear to be rabid, Fitzpatrick said...
...crowd went wild upon hearing the opening bars of the first encore, "Screen Writer's Blues." Opening with the surreal lines "exits to freeways twisted like knots on the fingers/jewels cleaving skin between breasts," "Screenwriter's Blues" is a lyrical masterpiece, a fascinating Beat-inspired attack on the entertainment industry in Los Angeles. The deal pan, nearly-spoken delivery of the lines together with the repeating bass line and horn-like keyboard sounds, created the type of mesmerizing tune that lingers in the subconcious well after the show...
...like political cartoonists like Doug Marlette and Mike Lukovitch. One of my favorite illustrators is Maurice Sendak, the man who wrote and illustrated the children's book, Where the Wild Things Are. I read an interview in which Sendak said the wild things in the story had been inspired by relatives from his childhood. He explained how when he was a child, these very old, frightening relatives with beady eyes and hair in their noses would come to visit for dinner. They would lean very close to him and say things like, "You're so cute I could just...