Word: wildness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...taught correctly, can be very useful. However, in the face of evidence that tells me that many teachers cannot even teach what they are supposed to teach, I find it hard to believe that they can teach self-esteem in a productive way. Self-esteem has caught on like wild-fire in the educational establishment, and I will venture to say that this is because it is easy to teach: it is a lot easier for a teacher to tell a child that his or her performance does not matter, as long as he or she feels good, than...
While "Dream" aims at black comedy, it alternates shizophrenically between fits of wild absurdity and tearful sadness. Next to the antics, the film's serious moments could be scenes from a different work. Most of its characters are one-sided, unconscious extensions of their Hollywood personalities. Part of "Dream's" joke is that they are type-cast, but they either don't know or don't care...
...arrest in Pakistan last month of Ramzi Yousef, an Iraqi-born resident of Kuwait and a chief suspect in theWorld Trade Center bombingin New York. But State Department and other government sources tell TIME Washington correspondent Douglas Waller they're not so sure. "Karachi is like the Wild West," says Waller. "It's just riven with political and ethnic factions." Over the last 15 months, he says, groups with varying motives have killed more than 1,000 Pakistanis and foreigners...
With the top two finishers in each of the 10 weight divisions, as well as eight wild-cards moving on to the NCAAs, the Crimson grapplers were well out of contention for a national tournament...
Today online sex is as wild and far-ranging as the human imagination -- a real Twilight Zone of the Id, which causes one to reflect on whether or not the human race is indeed an evolutionary cul-de-sac, until you remember that cybersex has been going on since humans received the gift of imagination. Cybersex is, at bottom, simply old sexual fantasies in a new electronic bottle. As with all other new mediums, online draws its energy from the same two timeless topics: radical politics and sexual fantasy. They are the first uses made of any new means...