Word: waywardly
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...book is both bad and great, its prose lopsided and its effects crude, its power and pathos undiminished. In adapting it anew, California's Berkeley Repertory Theater has retained all the virtues and many of the faults. The first half of Neal Bell's script seems wayward, slow and sometimes cute, in part because director Sharon Ott opts for a too stylized manner of acting. The second half is riveting. This is a story of downward mobility, about a miner turned dentist (sans diploma) who winds up defrocked and doomed in an abandoned mine. In a stunning coup de theatre...
...real issue is family breakdown," says Benton Samana, a Buddhist monk. "Don't believe that snow job about the kids joining gangs to protect themselves." In Southeast Asia, parents take wayward children to monks for counseling. In providing that service here, Samana constantly encounters war- related emotional problems, such as withdrawn or hysterical parents suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder. "Their children think they are wacky," he explains. "They don't want to be around them...
...dust." Cold Mountain was one of those jokester sages in whom Buddhist culture -- Zen Buddhism in particular -- abounded. Marden, whose interest in Oriental poetry had been deepening in the 1980s, seized on him not only because he liked the poetry in translation but because of the beautiful and wayward calligraphy of the surviving texts...
What is made of sleek composite fiber glass and rockets around a track like a wayward cruise missile? Not a race car or a bobsled. No, it's a high-tech chariot powered by two Arabian horses. Welcome to an ancient new sport. "Chariot racing is very fast, very colorful and very exciting," says Jim Hall, an Arabian horse farm owner, who has teamed up with engineer Phil Lawrence to launch Chariots International to promote the sport. The two Michigan natives spent the past year developing eight 350-lb., $6,000 chariots. In late September, professional harness drivers raced four...
...discharge rates of lesbians reflects the belief that "women in the military are thought to be either whores or dykes. So if you're not a whore you must be a dyke." Though any hint of homosexual activity means close scrutiny, gay military personnel say a good deal of wayward heterosexual activity is tolerated, even tacitly approved, by the military hierarchy. At the end of the gulf war, a Nevada brothel called the Mustang Ranch offered free passes to returning soldiers. "For some reason," says Wilson, "going to a whorehouse in their dress blues is not a problem...