Word: waywardly
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...Scenarists Larry Gelbart and Burt Shevelove (who wrote the 1962 Broadway musical A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum) dress hip gags in a graceful English manner, and their wayward humor brightens train wrecks, horse-and-buggy chase scenes and a hearse-to-hearse search for missing bodies. Among the grimly gay daguerrotypes at hand are Peter Cook and Dudley Moore as a pair of craven city cousins. Peter Sellers, as a sawbones who specializes in questionable cases, looks like a depraved caricature of Benjamin Franklin, while Wilfrid Lawson all but steals the show as a loyal...
...played Liz Taylor's older sister in National Velvet, Hurd Hatfield's girl friend in Picture of Dorian Gray, Charles Boyer's maid in Gaslight, the wayward Queen in The Three Musketeers, the Other Woman in State of the Union, Elvis Presley's mother in Blue Hawaii, Warren Beatty's mother in All Fall Down, and Laurence Harvey's mother in Manchurian Candidate...
...Nelson Rockefeller's own presidential aspirations, they have wound up right where the wayward elevator did. Since last July he has been insisting that he was out of the running "forevermore." Last week he restated his position in the strongest terms yet. Quoth the Rock: "I speak as one who has taken himself out of national contention, completely and forever, without reservation...
MORGAN! An improper bohemian misfit (David Warner) goes ape and declares gorilla war on his former wife (Vanessa Redgrave) in a wayward British comedy that only occasionally gets out of hand...
...Wayward Dealers. The case involved an operation in which a dozen Los Angeles area Chevrolet dealers, beginning in the late '50s, sold cars to discounters who in turn sold the cars to the public. The discounters drummed up business in high-profit-margin territory, even worked from rented space in supermarkets, where they took orders for Chevrolets at prices often as much as $175 below the going rate. Local dealers' groups hired private detectives to find out which of their members were operating through the discounters, and G.M. dried up the operation by threatening to lift the wayward...