Word: wildness
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Abbot on love: “But you cannot learn what a tumultuous, wild, passionate thing my love is, for you are not a man and cannot understand the intense vehemence of a man’s attachment...
...pick it up, having separated from Carmela in the incendiary Season 4 finale. He's living in the house that belonged to his deceased, emasculating mother (on The Sopranos, you can never escape your family history). Carmela's at casa Soprano with an angry teenage son--and a wild black bear invading the backyard, a menacing inversion of the family of ducks that settled in the pool in Season 1, precipitating Tony's first panic attack and trip to therapy. (Hammering home the metaphor, an animal-control expert tells Carmela that the corn Tony bought to feed the ducks...
...beyond the exhausted conventions of Western art, he would make some of its greatest works. "Gauguin Tahiti," which opens this week at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts after a hugely successful run at the Grand Palais in Paris, is one of the largest exhibitions ever mounted of those wild, influential canvases and carvings. Beautifully organized by George T.M. Shackelford of the Boston MFA and Claire Freches-Thory of the Musee d'Orsay in Paris, it reaches a wide-screen crescendo with the Boston MFA's great canvas Where Do We Come From? What Are We? Where Are We Going...
...South Park, four nine-year-old boys delve into eschatology nearly as much as scatology. Jesus Christ is a palpable presence in South Park - not surprising, since he lives there and hosts a cable access talk show ("Jesus and Pals"). A good and mild man in a mad and wild world, Jesus has fought a championship boxing match with Satan (episode 108), attempted to calm Millennium jitters at a Las Vegas concert with Rod Stewart (episode 316), and battled evil cult-magician David Blaine with the help of his Super Best Friends Buddha, Moses, Mohammed, Krishna...
...white striped, souped-up 1974 Ford Gran Torino, a visual icon of the era from the original series. In the movie, when Starsky gets behind the wheel of his beloved car, his uptight intensity lets loose, literally hurling his character—as well as Hutch—to wild extremes. “I did take driving classes and I got to do a couple of peel outs and skid stops,” Stiller states. “Owen wasn’t too comfortable about driving with me though...