Word: waywardly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Polish nebbish gets even with the nasty Frenchwoman of his dreams. In this dark comedy (second episode in the wonderful Blue-White-Red trilogy), director Krzysztof Kieslowski cannily observes the flourishing of capitalism and the festering of emotion in his wayward homeland...
That is stern stuff, and an abiding challenge to the wayward flesh. But it's the easy part. The hard part is the social side of the Judeo-Christian ethic, meaning not how you treat the spouse and kids but how you conduct yourself in the world beyond the bedroom and the den. We don't hear about it so much since the word Christian began its oxymoronic partnership with the smug word right, but Scripture demands unstinting charity, if not all out dedication to the poor...
Hare has granted all his characters humanizing histories and eccentricities; his actors, particularly Davies and Kotz, respond with richly wayward performances, and his play transcends its -- as it were -- parochial subject matter. Without resorting to gaseous big-think, Racing Demon is a sharp-edged, metaphorical study of the way confused institutions and their loyalists befuddle and betray one another in the age of ambiguity...
...only thing that could have helped Krein was if Paine had duplicated Roberto Baggio's wayward penalty kick in the shoot-out of the World Cup final...
...consensus is also developing about the juvenile-justice system. It takes forever to punish kids who seriously break the law, and it devotes far too much time and money to hardened young criminals while neglecting wayward kids who could still be turned around. "We can't look a kid in the eye and tell him that we can't spend a thousand dollars on him when he's 12 or 13 but that we'll be happy to reserve a jail cell for him and spend a hundred grand a year on him later," says North Carolina attorney general Mike...