Word: wildness
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Sequels flourish especially in conservative times, when audiences are in retreat from the shock of the new. Which is why you could place a small bet on a Bush re-election; voters may choose the sequel to a wild ride over a four-year courtship with Kerry and Edwards. But if this is so, how to explain the surprise-hit status of Fahrenheit 9/11? Simple. It too is a sequel: the latest in the continuing adventures of Michael Moore, populist rebel with a cause. Remember Bowling for Columbine, kids, when Mike confronted the gun lobby and vanquished an aged Charlton...
...wait till the fall. Ksor says he also suggested they call it a prayer vigil, not a protest. International attention, not an independent state, Ksor adds, was the goal. However, he didn't help his cause by claiming later that 400 people were "massacred" over the Easter weekend. This wild estimate was a gambit, he says, to force Hanoi to open the region to external observers...
...Update and recalls fond memories of being a baseball streaker, “To me, the NBA isn’t about the score, or who drafts who…it’s about going to the Garden on a Thursday night, drinking a few beers and mocking, wild and free. Until the security guards come and beat the holy beejeezus...
...took a glance at the mess. The former occupant of his position had taken the once proud program and mired it in mediocrity while engaging in wild financial mismanagement—a burden which fell upon the players to resolve in the form of checks made payable to Harvard University...
...style manners and the sacrifice of his parents' era is that some will ask if Howard's policies - viz. the Iraqi war, border protection and the housing boom he started - have contributed to this aggro, go-go, tolerance-lite culture. Perhaps Howard, in his constancy and experience - compared with wild man Latham - will seem tired and remote to voters under 40. Already the imagery is revealing. Howard on his solitary morning walks; a leader who appears at home with George W. Bush and the Queen, but out of place (an "abandoned lunch box" quipped former Liberal leader John Hewson...