Word: wayward
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...minutes later, Tenney, Leonard's running mate, puts herself on poster-patrol, stopping to strengthen tape on wayward signs. Because publicity-hungry student groups jostle for prime kiosk real estate, she says she and Leonard will walk around later practicing "poster defense...
...York subway ride to become a veritable sing-along. There, one can actually "Take the A Train," and it's great fun to sing the "Welcome Back Kotter" theme song while entering Brooklyn. The trouble, of course, is the bevy of thugs (meaner than Vinny Barbarino) and wayward youth who scare timid passengers, especially tourists, into silent submission. Nevertheless, the subway's filth fairly represents the less attractive features of city life. If Jefferson and Hamilton had had to ride the New York subway to work every day, we might all be living on the farm...
...Stettheimer--all of them have been tried out on museum walls. It was only a matter of time before attention turned back to Rockwell, a man who could paint cute but intricate scenes like The Runaway, where a cop and a waiter at a lunch counter size up a wayward but innocent kid. Is this art rising from the primordial muck of kitsch? Or just kitsch? As the grownups look him over, the kid makes you think of Rockwell being examined by the powers that be. Including...
...come to worship this false god of youth just as wayward, ancient Hebrews once knelt at the hooves of a golden calf. But perhaps there's a lesson there as well. Once the world's darling, that golden calf later found herself a tarnished cow, reduced to flashing her sagging udders at circus sideshows. Over time, self-loathing made her lactose-intolerant, and she died too young from an overdose of prescription-strength Dairy Ease[TM]. How do I know this? I just watched the whole sad aftermath during teen-idols week on VH1's Where Are They...
...fiction, to wish to end his first marriage and wed the woman he now loves. But rarely, if ever, has such a fellow been bedeviled by the array of obstacles Lin must confront. Not only is he scrupulously moral and thus vulnerable to all the guilty pangs of wayward husbandhood, but Lin's travails occur in a place--Communist China--and during a time--the early 1960s to the early '80s--when literally all occasions conspire against the quest for such a trivial thing as personal happiness...