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Upstairs is another story. The remarkable preponderance of tow-heads, the innocuous nature of the bathroom graffito, the stilted conversation of the patrons, and the proliferation of tuxedoes indicate to the wayward observer that he has at last stumbled upon a watering-hole of that too-too-common bird, the New England preppie. The last time we ventured upstairs, the company was chattering about the Groton-St. Marks game, to the disgrace of the formidable Crimson eleven, which had prevailed that very afternoon...
Someone says of Daisy Miller that "she did what she liked." Bogdanovich seems to be following that rather wayward course too. There is always the feeling with him that he is really better than he is showing us. But the further he gets from his kinetic first film, Targets, the more fragile that hope seems. · Jay Cocks
...Europe in 1903, she encountered young painters-Picasso, Braque, Matisse. She and her brother Leo began buying their pictures and aggressively befriending them. She clipped The Katzenjammer Kids from home newspapers for Picasso. The famous Saturday open-house evenings began as an attempt to channel Matisse's wayward urge to drop in at any hour with troops of comrades...
What the Wine-Sellers Buy, which opened in Manhattan last week, is essentially a sentimental domestic morality play of wayward youth, a play that is a dramatic refugee from the 1950s. EXcept that here the characters are black and the setting is the Detroit ghetto. The bad influence arrives in the form of Rico, a wonderfully reptilian pimp who means to apprentice Steve to his trade by having the lad peddle Mae in the streets. Will Steve choose the life of vice? Will he break his old mother's heart, not to mention...
Crouse comes off as a wayward idealist here, stopping at the typewriters of various press leaders to ask why they don't mutiny. They inevitably pause, deliver mealy-mouthed excuses, then resume work. Crouse stresses that again it is only from the outside that one might foil the Ziegler screen...