Word: wayward
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Wayward Pilots Lose Their Wings...
...high, if not higher, but the lows are more prominent as well.In the midst of swirling bells and dense backing harmonies, “Avalon, or Someone Very Similar” finds Georgia in the highest of vocal registers, channeling sometime collaborators the Magnetic Fields circa “Wayward Bus.” Lush pockets of jangle-pop slowly expand and burst, growing fuller with each verse, culminating in a heavenly guitar solo. “Nothing to Hide” is more ragged but still impeccable. Drawing on the raw, garage-rock sensibility of “Fuckbook?...
...just mere aberrations. Bollywood and elders now romanticize a time of close-knit familial relations that seems impossibly forced, even for the olden times. The realities of family rifts are often rewritten in golden age retellings of the joint-family collective memory, or dismissed as the result of wayward relatives and brash younger generations. Surely Dhirubhai Ambani may be rolling over in his grave, but today’s evidence for familial breakdown is rooted in themes of family disputes that are as timeless as “The Mahabharata.” Quarrelling families are not a modern phenomenon...
...commission stripped Bulgaria of $310 million in funds for failing to tackle corruption; the move had a barely discernible effect on reforms. E.U. officials have also grumbled that Bulgaria's yawning failures have undermined the E.U.'s own credibility as an authority to lay down the law on wayward members...
After seemingly an eternity - in reality, the nosedive lasted 20 very long seconds - the flight crew wrested control of the plane from its wayward computer and made an emergency landing at a remote military and mining airstrip 650 miles short of Perth. (Watch TIME's video of the rescue of US Airways flight...