Word: waywardly
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Abetted by Candice Bergen, as a thrill-seeking but good-natured deb, they determine to crack the uncrackable safe. At this point, what looked like just another spoofy heist picture takes on a wayward comic life that is about as refreshing as any adventure movie around these days. The grand plan calls for the orchestration of such oddly diverse elements as hand-painted cockroaches, an enormous piece of chocolate cake and a giant vacuum cleaner. Better still, it requires Grodin to convert himself from a chronically depressed victim into a man of action. That development-as his voice-over narration...
...Wayward Twitch...
Over the three-mile course which begins at the B.U. Bridge, a bad stroke or a wayward twitch of the rudder can mean the loss of a few precious seconds or even the boat itself. More than one impressive pursuing crew has bullied its immediate leader to destruction upon the Charles' banks...
...incessantly wayward, he glories so thoroughly - albeit temporarily - in the corruption of authority, that he becomes the object of outrage, and much of the film's capacity for empathy is lost...
...beginning of the century in the Ionian village of Skala, where he lived until 1914. The ravage delayed his return for 36 years, and sometimes he called himself a seafarer, perpetually seeking roots. The similitude aptly echoed reality, for Seferis traveled and he wrote--offering manuscripts like a wayward sailor tosses corked "bottles" in the sea on the chance they'll be retreived to mark his passage...