Word: waywardly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...bureaucrat. A few years ago, he began awakening at 6 a.m. instead of 7 a.m. in order to get in an extra hour of prayer. On one occasion a friend phoned him in the middle of the night seeking a priest who could hear the confession of an anguished wayward Catholic. Bernardin turned up, but was introduced as "Father" to spare the penitent any embarrassment...
...deft dealer, but his sleight of hand tips the hand of Director James Lapine. This will be an evening of chipper invention, but one that will skirt the deeper, darker depths of this forest, where magic turns to mystery and the tumbling appearance of the fairy kingdom's wayward spirits becomes a metaphor for the wayward heart's enigmatic leapings...
...becoming the man-made monsters who eventually turn on their creators. Inside the system, the captured programs are told to free themselves from the shackles of their users, to abandon their "superstitious" belief that they exist only for humans. Dellinger, who designed MCP, eventually becomes its slave as the wayward program blackmails its master into helping take over the Kremlin and the Pentagon, no less...
...tried not to, she smiled. So did her husband, the Colorado oil millionaire who last year kicked their boy out of the house and this month wept as he testified: "I wish to God I could trade places with him right now." But the dull blue eyes of their wayward son, pasted like wafers on his expressionless face, avoided the gaze of those in the courtroom through the very end. What emotions swirled in his twisted psyche-a mystery that neither psychiatrists nor jury felt they could fathom-were kept inside. John Hinckley had got off-and raised a nationwide...
...leagues were calling. After his debut feature film The Sugarland Express, an eccentric car-chase comedy starring Goldie Hawn, Spielberg found himself off the coast of Martha's Vineyard directing a huge cast and crew-and one wayward mechanical shark-in Jaws. A 55-day shooting schedule ballooned to 155 days; the $4 million budget soared to $8 million. Studio executives were threatening to close down the film and put "Bruce," the shark, on exhibit as part of the Universal City tour. The crew was wavering daily between seasickness and shell shock. "It was almost Mutiny on the Bounty...