Word: wayward
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...trip to “decompress” before arriving home, Lewis immediately agrees to pick her up, selling his plane ticket home in order to buy a very old used car with which to chauffeur her. However, he has not traveled far before he receives news that his wayward older brother Fuller (Saving Silverman’s Steve Zahn) is in jail and must be bailed out. Fuller then joins his brother on the ride to Venna’s college. As a result of Fuller’s playful influence, Lewis participates in a practical joke, pretending...
OVERRATED Barbara Walters with Anne Heche. Promoted ad nauseam, Babs' interview with the wayward actress turned out to be an egregious example of the celebrity confessional as career move. At least Condit spared us the psychobabble...
...celebrities, where a White House intern not only becomes world famous but whose emotional life is laid out for all to see, Julia Roberts still manages to connect with moviegoers in ways that few other actors have. Possessing so much information about her, and especially about her blithe but wayward romances, audiences feel they know her intimately in all her vulnerable charm; they feel protective and affectionate; and these feelings in turn invest her screen performances with a special immediacy and resonance...
...liquor with someone else's ID at an Austin restaurant last month. Caught with a margarita at the same haunt, her sister Barbara pleaded no contest last week and will do eight hours of community service. While the President and his wife quietly grappled with how to manage their wayward children (it's Jenna's second citation), baby-boomer parents across the country had to wonder: If the First Daughters could get into this kind of trouble with the press and public and even the Secret Service looking on, what might their own kids--living their lives outside such...
...global warming, a president who has previously been warned by Republican insiders to bone up on policy issues when dealing with wayward senators will face an even tougher task. Having come into power believing this whole global warming thing was a left-wing conspiracy hatched while his family was out of power, Bush in April flatly rejected the Kyoto treaty that the international community had spent the best part of a decade negotiating. Last week, a scientific panel he'd commissioned gave the president some unwelcome findings: Global warming is, indeed, caused by human activity, and that needs...