Word: misspent
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Tennessee Williams outlived his talent but not his yearning to create. Throughout his final years of drunkenness, lewd confessions and paranoiac public feuding, in the face of critical rejection and box-office failure, he went on writing, morning after diligent morning, no matter how he had misspent the night before. That poignant fact confers dignity on what was otherwise the pathetic wreckage of genius. Unlike Eugene O'Neill, his chief rival for the laurel as America's greatest playwright, Williams left no posthumous masterpiece. Indeed, unless future generations discern something more than glimmers of incandescence in the murky, forgettable plays...
...term papers during working hours. Another informed on the Defense Department, which was spending $1,245 on a rotating counter that cost only $124.50 commercially. The GAO has spent $3.4 million to operate the hot line over the past five years, and has identified about $20 million in misspent funds and projected savings of an additional $24 million. The Government offers no rewards. Says Carbone: "People just don't like to see their tax dollars abused." The number to call...
...warrant of 1660 that allowed Englishwomen for the first time to play themselves onstage. She then advanced herself further by bearing a child to Charles II. This son of the orange wench was created a duke. A whore's life, Fraser is led to conclude, may be misspent without being necessarily wasted...
...minstrels of medieval Europe, the moon was a kind of celestial junkyard. They consigned to lunar banishment a dolorous assortment of such earthly intangibles as broken vows, fruitless tears and misspent time. Today the moon is a repository of more substantial material: it harbors a pile of gear, left behind by Apollo astronauts, that includes one moon buggy, $5 million worth of camera equipment and two golf balls that Alan Shepard whacked with a makeshift six iron to unplayable lies in a boulder-strewed valley. Still, this lunar refuse is paltry by comparison with all of the man-made debris...
...pursue a coherent examination of these characters in relationship to each other and to the events that transform their lives. This kind of thing, emotions under claustrophobic pressure, is precisely what Director Roger Donaldson, a New Zealander, did well in Smash Palace two years ago. Instead, time is misspent on the allegedly exotic sights, rites and sexuality of the South Seas natives. Toplessness aside, he visualizes them pretty much as directors did in Dorothy Lamour's day. Perhaps he was distracted by the shadows still fitfully visible in this film of the intelligent, unrealized idea with which it began...