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...connected to the play. She wafts in and out of the living room like some brittle hostess from a Victorian drawing-room comedy. Her frantic fussiness and deliberate animation are doubtless intended to conceal her sorrow at the loss of her husband, but instead Moya comes across as a callous coquette concerned only with the progress...

Author: By Elizabeth A. Murphy, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Family Ties: Acting Highlights 'Red Roses' | 11/21/1997 | See Source »

...outdone, the Messinger campaign continues to harp on the Mayor's questionable campaign finance practices, his callous treatment of the city's schools and his alleged draft-dodging during the Vietnam...

Author: By Rustin C. Silverstein, | Title: Snoozing Through the Circus | 10/23/1997 | See Source »

...some, for the purpose of comparison, received a placebo. It is the inclusion of these placebo groups that the critics find objectionable. Giving a sugar pill to an AIDS patient is considered ethically unacceptable in the U.S. To give one to a pregnant African, Dr. Angell writes, shows a "callous disregard of [a patient's] welfare for the sake of research goals...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: IT'S AIDS, NOT TUSKEGEE | 9/29/1997 | See Source »

...midweek, in a move whose cynical brilliance merits a special Pulitzer for ass-saving improvisation, those very same tabloids were screaming SHOW US YOU CARE. Us: the grieving press and public. You: those cold and callous Windsors...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE GREAT DI TURNAROUND | 9/22/1997 | See Source »

...refreshing to hear logic and sensitivity like Krauthammer's in a world that has become so cruel and callous. LEAH WOLF Metar, Israel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Sep. 1, 1997 | 9/1/1997 | See Source »

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