女神殿

vagaries



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[vuh-gair-ee, vey-guh-ree] 

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–noun
1. an unpredictable or erratic action, occurrence, course, or instance: the vagaries of [weather]; the vagaries of the [economic] scene.
2. a whimsical, wild, or unusual idea, desire, or action.

—Synonyms 
2. caprice, whim, quirk, crotchet.


　
Certainly ''Bad Timing,'' which opens the ''British Film Now'' series (it will be shown at the Paramount Theater at 5 and 8 P.M. today, and will open at the Sutton tomorrow), has a great deal in common with Mr. Roeg's other films. Once again, he teams a fragilelooking man with a woman of exceptional abandon. 

Art Garfunkel and Theresa Russell, echoing Mr. Roeg's casting of David Bowie with Candy Clark, Mick Jagger with Anita Pallenberg, and Donald Sutherland with Julie Christie, play Americans who meet in Vienna and become involved in a sexually [explicit], but not particularly torrid affair. 

Though the title refers to the vagaries of their [relationship], it could just as easily denote the pattern of the story's exposition. Scrambled flashbacks help complicate this tale, which begins as a tepid romance and ends with a tepid crime. 


capricious 
unpredictable, arising from sudden whim
a capricious [administration] constantly and [in]explicably changing its signals; 
a capricious and astounding reversal of [position]. 
fickle
underlying perversity as a cause
once [lionized], now [rejected] by a fickle public.
inconstant
innate disposition to change
an inconstant [lover], flitting from affair to affair.
vacillating
lack of resolution of firmness
an [indecisive], vacillating [leader], apparently incapable of a sustained course of action.
erratic
She is a very erratic [tennis] player.
Our rowboat's [course] was erratic after we lost the [oars].
He's too [erratic] a writer and 
too [flaccid] a director 
to balance the [smirky]-dirty humor with the [schmaltzy] sensitive shit. 
whimsical 
whimsy 
pixilated
He blows up [cropped] arms, legs and [genitals] so that they’re heavily [pixilated] and almost look like Grand Master paintings.
Hypochondria