Word: waywardly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...declared in a New Year's message that cruise missiles were causing "insecurity" in Scandinavia and called on both NATO and the Warsaw Pact to accept a ban on such weapons in northern Europe. But his remarks had been recorded a week earlier and were not precipitated by the wayward missile. In Norway, the government decided to send a note of protest to the Soviet Union, but the Norwegian defense chief, General Frederik Bull-Hansen, urged the press not to "dramatize" the story. Said he: "There is no reason to believe that the missile came over Norwegian territory to test...
...sapping the vitality of theater for future generations. If, to protect themselves, authors must state detailed production criteria, it is better to grant generous production rights rather than handcuff directors. Such artistic freedom will, in the long run, benefit theater. And it is worth the risk of an occasional wayward production...
...incident illustrated the troubles faced by Americans and Lebanese worried about another possible kamikaze assault in Beirut. Lebanon's civil aviation authority has instructed planes heading for Beirut Airport to avoid Baabda. If a wayward aircraft does appear over the presidential compound, security forces have little time to decide whether the plane carries harmless civilians or terrorists with explosives. "It is not a situation we relish," says a U.S. official. "I'm afraid it's a question of shooting first and asking questions later...
...frenetic cast to the complexities of a story that involves locations in five countries, so tightly does Hill run his shuttle service between them, that there is no room for a particularizing word or gesture from anyone. The true subject here is the logistics of moviemaking, not the more wayward logic of history-tormented hearts and minds...
...Writer Gerard Reve (Jeroen Krabbé) have their cinematic possibilities. The trouble is his movie is mostly banal, the stuff of arrested adolescence. It contains obsessively recurring images: woman as spider, devouring her mate once she has lured him to sexual consummation; woman as elusive Madonna, offering salvation to wayward boys if only they can catch her attention; campy sacrilege committed on Catholic iconography gloomy reflections on the artist's unhappy lot in a staid bourgeois society, with particular reference to Holland, where the audience is uneconomically small and the language is not exactly a popular international currency...