Word: straying
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...between “soil” and “heartland.” The film itself is driven by its energetic camerawork, tantalizing leads, and a madcap soundtrack ranging from vintage French cabaret to the Kinks. Adventurous moviegoers should be driven by curiosity and the desire to stray from the well-beaten Hollywood track, and they will not be disappointed...
Some afternoons he would wander through backyards in the neighborhood, tranquilizer gun ready, chasing stray pets. He did it as if he were the action hero in a hunt-'em-down video game, tracking the creatures with an aggression that for a 7-year-old boy might have been charming, if a bit creepy. In a grown man, it was just weird. The true 7-year-olds knew it too--kids in the area made up a game called Hide from Dennis, taking cover whenever they saw his white van approach...
...suspect someone of murder because he is nitpicky or hates stray pets--you probably just decide he is annoying. In fact, Rader's mix of good and bad traits makes him human and relatively normal--which is what experts, though perhaps not the rest of us, expect serial killers to seem. BTK "has done such monstrous crimes, so we want the guy to be a monster, drooling and with one eye in the middle of his forehead," says former FBI profiler Gregg McCrary, author of The Unknown Darkness: Profiling the Predators Among Us. "But we look right through them because...
...Officer reported a stray dog roaming down 9 Lowell St. The dog was promptly returned to the owner...
Winn-Dixie is a stray who also happens to be perfectly trained to sit, smile, whimper, and howl in harmony to church hymns on command. With the clichéd carefree curiosity of a dog, he proceeds to win the hearts of the townspeople and mend their relationships...