Word: erraticism
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The film is studded with real moments. Scenarios are deceitful, improvization honest. Concomitantly, improvization--the actors go through a scene line for line, then throw away their scripts and play the situation out of their heads--is fumbly, halting, erratic. Nobody Waved Goodbye has less gloss than Jake Wirth's...
For those who dropped out after, say, On the Road, The Subterraneans or The Dharma Bums, Jack Kerouac is remembered as a likable literary wild man, a frightener of librarians, a pie-eyed piper for young men with no socks. Perhaps because socklessness no longer seems the major menace (the...
Walt Hewlett will make his spring debut in the two-mile, and, though his erratic tendencies have made him a legend in his own time, his performance today against capable Rick Wilmer should give some hint of what to expect next week.
Layton noted that the prize in music "hasn't always been for the most distinguished work," and that the jury's record has been "erratic." He "would certainly hesitate to say that there hadn't been a single work worthy of the prize."
Harvard's attackers pushed close to the BRC goal-line several times in the first half, but erratic kicking and an inability to pick up the ball and carry it kept them from paydirt. One well-executed series of passes, however, freed Quentin Spector, who rammed the ball through the...