Word: callously
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...rumored: "He thinks it's killing." Pro-choicers are giving the announcement a cool reception. Kate Michelman, president of the National Abortion Rights Action League, told TIME Daily: "Her public support comes a little too late for the millions of American women who had to endure the insulting and callous policies of the Bush Administration...
...national symbol, the bald eagle is supposed to be the embodiment of American strength, grace and pride. But for much of this century, the majestic bird has been an emblem of the country's careless and sometimes callous treatment of wildlife. Pinched by human population growth, poisoned by pollutants and slaughtered by hunters, the eagle went into such a decline that by 1940 Congress felt compelled to pass a law protecting the highflyer. It didn't work: in 1963 there were only 417 breeding pairs of bald eagles left in the lower 48 states, and by 1978, when the eagle...
...rational few should not condemn her too quickly. After all, with all Cambridge's loony shoppers shunning the tagged products, we can wait a few days for the inevitable markdown and cheaply snap up all the bunnicidal toiletries our callous little faces could ever need...
...story calls for. Although the only real momentum the thin plot ever generates surrounds Angie's pregnancy and the birth of her child, the film's restrained exploration of the complexities of the characters and relationships more than make up for this lack. Angie can be simultaneously selfish, callous, sarcastic and affectionate. Even when Angie's actions are reprehensible. Davis infuses her character with so much spirit that she remains engaging. Without this light-handed performance, Angie's internal turmoil as impending motherhood forces her to confront her own demons would never have worked...
...women, adores their quiddities, luxuriates ceaselessly in their bodies: toes, earlobes, the whole array of earthly delights. When he is paying what would appear to be monomaniacal attention to one sweetheart, he is, naughty fellow, roistering in memory or anticipation with a flotilla of others. This isn't calculated, callous satyrism; Ira isn't Don Juan. He's helpless, a captive. (He does seem to have a job, but it's in public relations, and doesn't require much attention...