Word: wildness
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...biggest names down with it. All the same, despite its frequent lapses into coarseness, triviality and crass merchandising--hey, because of those things!--it was the last time that stars of the gallery circuit were also famous in the wider world. The decade included not only the wild-style markings of Basquiat but also the slatherings on broken plates of Julian Schnabel, the lovable doodles of Keith Haring, the metallic metal bunny balloon of Jeff Koons--even your mother had heard about that stuff...
...could mark a canvas in interesting ways. And in a typical Basquiat, nothing was minimal. Everything was cluttered, unbuckled and dripping. Although he came from a middle-class background--his father was an accountant--collectors tended to see him as the authentic representative of the urban underworld, the new wild child. They came running with their wallets open. They have kept them open too. Last June an untitled Basquiat from 1982, a head with fangs, sold at auction in London for $4.5 million. His record is $5.5 million, for a painting sold in 2002 by Metallica drummer Lars Ulrich...
...good thing in the hands of reasonable people," Walesa told TIME, but he believes the latest charges are being handled by "less reasonable" people, mostly for political ends. "It has caused a lot of trouble," Walesa says, "but maybe this is what we need." Newspapers have coined the term "wild lustration" to describe the storm of new charges. The term, derived from the Latin for "purification," was coined in the early 1990s to describe the vetting of public figures for ties with the old regime. But now it's back. And what makes this lustration so wild is the indiscriminate...
...appointed to investigate the charges confirmed the list's authenticity earlier this month, but noted that KGB "reservists" were not necessarily agents, and that the presence of these men in government does not compromise national security. Opposition members are still insisting they step down. In yet another case of "wild," or unregulated, lustration, the Hungarian think tank Political Capital released its own list of 60 alleged collaborators last month, the first of what Krisztián Szabados, the organization's co-director, says are 150,000 Hungarians known as agents or informers. The aim is "to pressure the political...
Junior Cherie Piper retaliated on the Big Green’s behalf with just over two minutes left in the frame to bring the score to 5-2 and cap off a wild flurry of goal scoring. Piper’s slapper through traffic beat Horak inside the left post for the seventh goal in a shade under 18 minutes. The first period concluded with only 17 shots on goal, seven of which found their way past the goalies...