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I can't be sure what Everett's languid, bare-chested Oberon is up to--posing for a Calvin Klein ad, maybe--and his relationship to Tucci's jaded, aging frat-boy Puck is that of a prissy gamekeeper to a wayward Alvin the Chipmunk.
The high-decibel concern about wayward youth is full of defensive bluster and muddle-headed ambivalence, and it is strikingly lacking in realism.
Both Byron's and Ruskin's wayward words are directly related to their modern equivalents but have essentially historic spellings.
While upper proportions have shifted uneasily from big shoulders and wayward hair to neater hair and narrower shoulders, there has been a steady trend down below toward gigantic shoes for both sexes and all ages--multicolored and padded feet, creatively laced-up, zipped-up, and raised-up feet.
Weekly Hatch Toons attack the senator's opponents: A cartoon of a wayward youth smoking something quotes the parents' impression that their boy is "presidential material.