Word: waywardly
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Still, it has moments of wayward life, especially in contrast to the smug torpor of Star Trek V, which William Shatner directed from a script by David Loughery. That "final frontier" mentioned in its title is nothing more than your standard black hole, through which the starship Enterprise is commanded to navigate by a not very menacing religious fanatic named Sybok (Laurence Luckinbill). He imagines he will find God lurking back of this particular beyond. What he finds instead is, of course, a false deity manifested in the form of an unpersuasive special effect...
There seems to have been, as well, an attempt to cover up the caper. The theft occurred in April, but the bereft Bunny keepers said nothing publicly until two weeks ago, when Playboy offered a Hefty $50,000 reward for the wayward videos' safe return...
...century's greatest pastoral poets. "At Grass" (about retired racehorses) and "First Sight" (about winter-born lambs) are hymns to the inexorable rhythms of the seasons, to which each human, unfortunately, has only a short-term invitation. "Church Going" deals with a man-made structure. A wayward cyclist stops out of curiosity and enters an empty house of worship: "Once I am sure there's nothing going on/ I step inside, letting the door thud shut." That offhand "nothing going on" builds slowly to signify a loss of faith, of ritual and communal practices. There are no tears, but neither...
...Medicare reimbursement proposal was approved by a coalition of liberal Democrats and maverick Republicans breaking ranks with their party leadership. House Minority Leader Steven D. Pierce (R-Westfield) speculated last week that many of the 21 wayward Republicans would not support the amendment again if the matter were reconsidered...
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...