Word: wayward
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...relationship, and from Charlie's point of view, a destructive one. Diane demands, just before leaving in final disgust, "Why are you always one inch away from being a good person?," knowing full well the answer lies in the tribal loyalty that keeps him bound to his wackily wayward kinsman. But there is more to the male bonding than that, as this bleakly, sneakily comic movie explains. For all his sharp airs and knowing style, Charlie is a rather passive character. He needs the lift hat Paulie, bouncing through life like a Spauldeen in a stickball game, can give...
Seurat was the wayward child of impressionism. Renoir and Sisley might seek to catch life on the fly; he would aspire to stasis. Their voluptuous brushstrokes were too imprecise, too sensational for this artist-scientist. Seurat worked dot by meticulous dot, woodpeckering the canvas with pricks of color that would fuse into meaning in the spectator's eye. So it is with the sculptor in Act II of Sunday in the Park with George. This George composes bit by bit, or byte by byte. He has created a computerized sculpture, Chromolume #7 (chromo-luminarism is an other critical term...
Does anyone really believe that a wayward child, without guidance from home and church, will turn away from drug abuse, sexual promiscuity and even suicide because of one minute of prayer in school...
...roll fantasy," Lane portrays an adult singer who is kidnaped by a gang of biker-thugs. "Hormones have happened," explains Lane. "I'm past the growing-up stage." In Lane's most recent movie, Rumble Fish, she was saddled with the unbecoming part of a wayward outsider, a tough adolescent in tarty makeup. Says she: "I can't tell you how happy I am to be in a movie where even my lip gloss is accepted...
Despite several missed layups, muddled fast breaks and wayward passes Harvard's advantage never fell below eight...