Word: callously
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...makes a lot of people more bold, sometimes more callous," Peterson says. "It's like the telephone--if you only talk to someone over the phone, they might give off a certain personality, but then you meet them and they seem like a totally different person...
...Contract With America attacks safety and environmental protections and regulations, especially under the guise of cost-effectiveness. Callous disregard for public safety is not new; in 1982, for example, the Reagan administration stopped the Department of Health and Human Services from issuing warnings that aspirin could cause Reye Syndrome if given to children with flu or chicken pox infections. Reye Syndrome caused about 360 deaths per year, as well as brain damage to many survivors, but the administration met privately with aspirin manufacturers who feared losses of $100 million, and was able to block warnings for three years. Another example...
...socially conscious TV movies. The Mother deals with a social problem -- what is best for old people? -- yet it has no agenda, makes no statements, foments no outrage. There are no bad people to blame for the old woman's plight: a self-involved son, say, or a callous bureaucrat. Even the garmentmaker who fires her is a decent man under cruel commercial pressures. Nor does Chayefsky rail against "the system." If there's any culprit, it is simply -- pardon the expression -- the human condition...
...soldier in every reader. No one writes better about the fear and homesickness of a boy adrift amid what he cannot understand, be it combat or love. O'Brien shows us Wade as a lonely, pudgy 10- year-old, practicing magic tricks before the mirror, hoping to conjure a callous father's love out of thin air. "The mirror made his father smile all the time. The mirror made the vodka bottles vanish from their hiding place in the garage, and it helped with the hard, angry silence at the dinner table." At his father's funeral the 14-year...
They're about women as sex-slaves, sexual killers, sexual deviants, transsexuals. Unlike the cold, stupid, callous hardcore pornographic films of today, Wishman's soft-core films are low-budget portraits of odd balls which happen to involve sex. These films were originally shown in art houses and drive-ins. And I can see why. I'm sure all anyone would do while watching, is screw...