Word: waywardly
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Movies about decadence are as American as apple pie. It is no wonder that Cabaret has transformed Sally Bowles, the wayward English schoolgirl of Christopher Isherwood's Berlin Stories, into an offbeat American princess, and that America, in loving recognition, has responded by placing Liza Minelli, the reigning Sally Bowles, on the covers of both its major news magazines...
...very small but, springing, perhaps, from no more than a wayward romantic impulse) it still seems sad to see the studios die. Making myths, developing dreams, they became mythic themselves, 'forming the tangible, actually existing center of a new dream: the dream of Hollywood, of stardom, of a tacky but imaginatively potent 'glamour. The reality on which that dream was based may often have been cheap and false, but sometimes it was not. Like a popular song, like a mass-printed poem, like a B-movie, it at least provided something to dream about; in regard to dreams, something...
...foreign ports are often banned as "corrupting." Ashore or at sea, the sailors' activities are closely watched by the ship's zampolit (political officer), a combination cheerleader, disciplinarian and father-confessor. He is the deputy of the ship's captain, with full authority to punish any wayward salt...
...Wayward Wind...
...Wayward Wind...