Word: waywardly
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...economy didn't bite as an issue which is an enormous relief for the White House. The President wasn't hindered by the corporate scandals or even the fact that he later trimmed the budget for the cops who were supposed to clamp down on wayward CEOs. Harvey Pitt made himself the first casualty of the election having handed in his resignation early in the afternoon, clearing up one of the administrations most glaring carbuncles...
Fallen Leader, Wayward Followers
...Film Festival - it won the top prize there, as well as the critics' award at the Toronto Film Festival a week later - is Mullan's second feature-length work (after 1997's Orphans). The fact-based tale of four girls sent to one of Ireland's Magdalene asylums for wayward girls - often, it seems, their sin was simply being pretty and flirtatious - has little in common with Mullan's own background. But he has come to understand the connection between his story and the ones he tells in the film. "My father was our oppressor," he says...
Conspiracy buffs might imagine a family intrigue with George H.W. as the master puppeteer, pulling the strings on his former Administration members Brent Scowcroft, Larry Eagleburger, James Baker and Colin Powell to get the wayward son to restrain his war preparations and tough talk. But the reality has no strings. All those men have gone public with cautionary suggestions for the current President, but the former President did not talk to any of them or review their texts before they wrote and broadcast. Since they left the White House, the elder Bush has treated them as senior statesmen with...
...tale of articulate people with the gift of hurting the ones they care about, Full Frontal reminds viewers that there's room for stories about grownups--their wayward loves; their career blips; their relation to the media maw; their takes on race, pets, outsize vibrators and Brad Pitt--told with inventive wit in a dozen distinctive voices...