Word: wayward
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...attending a nearby bar. Groaned he into his cups and to all who would listen: "That woman is ruining my play." Later, unable even to bear reports of the nightly spectacle, Williams left town. But, ruinously or not, Tallulah kept packing them into the theater. Next destinations of her wayward Streetcar: Palm Beach, then Manhattan's City Center...
...politics, succeeded only erratically in journalism, and earned such labels as "rampant Randolph" and "England's answer to Elliot Roosevelt." But in the last two years, Randolph Churchill, now 44, has been emerging in a role all his own as the sharpest, scrappiest critic of Britain's wayward press...
...characters seem less in a comedy of manners than a comedy of mannerisms, Playwright Bagnold could still be having fairly usual fun with her eccentrics. But soon enough there is evidence of a special mind and temperament at work, of a kind of grande-dame method of playwriting, wayward and unconciliatory, but with a wit that delights and an authority that mesmerizes...
...Gogh), was the hairy centerpiece of a trio of singers while rehearsing before a polio benefit on the terrace of Monte Carlo's Summer Sporting Club. His deep voice blended commendably with the husky baritone of Grandma Marlene Dietrich and the lilting tremolo of Italian Cinemactress Gina (The Wayward Wife) Lollobrigida...
...forgets about reporting as he becomes infatuated with the world of crime -with its sense of power, its money that produces a kind of evil freedom, its masculinity ("The deferential male is an object of derision to criminal woman"). Much of this first novel's wayward charm lies in its passing epigrammatic remarks. Sample, on a TV M.C.: "He was a matador who played human beings instead of bulls." On reporters: "They have, every two or three years, the satisfaction of being told to find the truth . . . This is why newspapermen are content to wear dusty gray suits...