Word: wildness
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Dostum's mercenary troops achieved notoriety for ruthless courage on the battlefield and wild indiscipline off it. Bearing a legacy of 200 years near the bottom of a Pashtun-dominated social order, they seemed to take a special delight in evening the historical score, killing Pashtun mujahedin of the south, and looting and terrorizing the civilians...
...wanted to make a TV show about the Hamptons, the seaside Long Island, N.Y., enclave that hosts Manhattan's rich and sybaritic every summer, you might call Dynasty's Aaron Spelling, Sex and the City's Darren Star or whoever produces Wild On for the E! network. You probably wouldn't call Oscar-winning documentarian Barbara Kopple, known for her socially conscious films about coal miners and meat-packers, unless the show involved unionizing the caterers and polo-horse grooms...
...rise trend, have had to make way for those made by Seven, the ultimate insider jeans, with a discreet label, no advertising and a monthly production limited to 100,000 pairs. Then there are dozens of little labels: Miss Sixty, Juicy Jeans, Paper Denim. "It's a wild thing from a fashion standpoint to keep up with this," says Robert Burke, senior fashion director at Bergdorf Goodman. "Consumers move on with these brands very quickly. It's become a huge business for everyone...
...Petersburg's Hermitage Museum, and three centuries of Russian history, in one amazing 87-min. Steadicam shot. Escape into movies: Catherine Breillat's beguilingly erotic Sex Is Comedy, about a director preparing her two leads for a bedroom scene. It's a funny, delicate walk on the wild and wise side. But the top winner, in this fraught year, had to be a film about victims and survivors. For The Pianist's Szpilman (well played by Adrien Brody) and the half-million other Jews sardined into the Ghetto, the issue of individual survival was as capricious as the number...
Hordon struggled in the first inning, allowing two singles and two walks, balking on a full count and throwing a wild pitch with the bases loaded as the Owls jumped to a quick 2-0 lead...