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Word: waywardly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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HIGH HOPES. A dotty old woman fights to keep her home amid the crush of gentrification. Working with a cast that has helped improvise its roles, British director Mike Leigh creates a group portrait of characters who live, breathe and squawk their wayward humanity on the margins of Thatcher's England...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Critics' Choice: Apr. 17, 1989 | 4/17/1989 | See Source »

Babbit will be a crucial figure in waking America up from the years of wayward leadership. He will say things that need to be said--and I don't think that will cost him an election in the future. But for the troubles confronting America, we will need a new brand of idealism--a purpose able to unite a country never before so divided along issues of race and class. Such a solution would be so tied into today's problems that it would leave Mr. Smith, crumpled hat held off to his side, scratching his head in amazement...

Author: By Noam S. Cohen, | Title: Mr. Smith Comes to Harvard | 4/10/1989 | See Source »

HIGH HOPES. A dotty old woman fights to keep her home amid the crush of gentrification. Working with a cast that has helped improvise its roles, British director Mike Leigh creates a group portrait of characters who live and breathe and squawk their wayward humanity on the margins of Margaret Thatcher's England...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Critics' Choice: Apr. 3, 1989 | 4/3/1989 | See Source »

...less harum-scarum future? Perhaps pause to admire a brave and subtle film that knowingly explores ideas, even ideologies, but never dries up emotionally -- a film that never puts its characters' duties to metaphor ahead of their prime obligation, which is to live and breathe and squawk their wayward humanity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: A Fable for Postmoderns | 3/20/1989 | See Source »

...John Updike. The scarlet letter on the dust jacket stands for Sarah Worth (nee Price), a wayward Massachusetts wife who runs off to an Indian guru's ashram in Arizona. Her messages home are consistently, if unconsciously, hilarious...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Best of '88: Books | 1/2/1989 | See Source »

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