Word: wildness
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...ahead of him yet. You've got that hanging over the show." But even if Father of the Pride bombs, Imagi has other projects in the works, including a movie for Japanese toymaker Bandai and a feature film of its own. "For this to work, you have to be wild," Kao tells his staff. "Give me some wild ideas." How about a young man who, weary of making Christmas trees with his dad, thinks show biz might be more...
...with Beijing's help, the giant panda appears to be making a comeback. In the most comprehensive survey of the giant-panda population ever taken, the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) and the Chinese State Forestry Administration have found almost 1,600 of the endangered pandas in the wild?nearly 50% more than were previously known to exist...
...These setbacks have helped solidify Beijing's commitment to preserving the animals in the wild. A commercial-logging ban in 1998 allowed the WWF and provincial governments to establish numerous wildlife reserves?there are now more than 40, compared with 13 when the last panda survey was taken in the late '80s?along with bamboo-forested corridors linking them. These corridors are crucial, explains Li, because they connect the fragmented panda habitats and, in theory, allow the animals to find mates more easily...
...part of this antique, dead-end genre? It's like dreaming of becoming a hat blocker or a Yiddish scholar. What kid in the hinterlands would even know that a clear, crisp Broadway vocal style exists, when "American Idol" teaches that pop crooning is a demonstration of wild vibrato work and orgasmic emoting? My friend, the distinguished actor George Grizzard, watches "American Idol" and shouts with exasperation at the TV screen: "Just sing the goddamn song...
Stein said he himself was not like Ferris in high school. But even though he earned good grades, he said he was a “wild kid” who drank, smoked, cut class and “had mad crushes on bad girls,” none of whom returned the sentiment...