Word: wildness
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...restaurants and sold in stores in the U.S. has spent much of its life splashing in huge sea cages off the coast of Norway. The catfish du jour is probably a product of the $704 million industry centered in the Mississippi Delta and is a cosseted cousin of the wild redfish that was fished to near extinction in the '80s craze for Paul Prudhomme's cast-iron Cajun cuisine. The succulent oyster on its bed of ice could have been pampered like an orchid in Quilcene Bay on the Hood Canal in Washington, or in Tomales Bay near Marshall, Calif...
...election reform created in 1911 for the admirable purpose of giving people direct power to pass laws at the ballot box ran wild this year in California -- and the voters rebelled. Faced with 28 ballot initiatives, some with deliberately similar titles but with opposite intentions, Californians threw up their hands and rejected 22 of them...
...with Lynch's Wild at Heart, The Eagle Has Two Heads is stuffed with symbolisn and thick with metaphors. The Queen predicts the events of the play with a deck of fortune-telling cards. Stanislas is also known as Azreal, or "angel of death." And there are fairly explicit allusions to, and indeed, reenactments of, such works as Hamlet. But this self-conscious symbolism need not be over- analyzed; it exists merely to provide texture...
Lauderdale kicked this year off with a "Wild Kingdom" party, since he "always wanted a resurrection of `Bungle in the Jungle,'" a party thrown last year, he says. "Hello Kitty" invitations for the event asked that "no bitter or negative people" attend, he says...
...rout in Worcester was not unexpected--Albany was only the second-place team in the traditionally weak Northern New York League. But the combination of a tough, scrappy opponent and torrential downpours kept the Harvard squad focused on the wild-card match...