Word: carelessly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...African bush, notes Morrow, is an "unforgiving place. The lame and the careless are taken down quickly." Morrow learned the cautious local custom: while walking in the bush, warn the animals of your approach; it is when they are surprised that they tend to attack. When out alone, Morrow took to bellowing old Irish songs to alert whichever beasts might be lurking nearby. One day he headed out for some fishing in the Aberdare Mountains. "I went down the game trail to a trout stream with my fly rod in hand, singing like the Clancy Brothers," recalls Morrow...
...heedless imperatives mostly seize the young: the least disciplined, least knowledgeable and least likely segment of society to take any thought for the morrow or have any intimations of their own mortality. And there are those in any society who are forever young, or venturesome, or lonely or simply careless. To pause on the downhill slope of passion, to call time out from rapture and contemplate that this single act could be fatal, is only marginally more imaginable than the pause that too seldom occurs to consider whether this single act will create an unwanted life...
...movie begins under false, bright colors at a beach colony where Zorg is the caretaker, and glad enough to have an attractive girl come into his life. The sex here is very naked and bluntly erotic -- a few minutes of careless sex unmediated by commitment or guilt. For a while the movie seems like another study of love along what is left of the hippie margin. But no, it moves toward ever darker, more claustrophobic interiors as Betty realizes that the lackadaisical Zorg cannot absorb all of her energies. She discovers that he once wrote, and abandoned, a novel...
Gooden and his four companions have been charged with battery on a police officer and of resisting arrest with violence--both felonies--as well as with disorderly conduct and careless driving...
...question matters because Dubus insists that actions, however dumb or careless, create moral consequences. Someone is to blame for wife and child battering, for drug abuse, for racial hatred, for crime, for the sense of dread that is "loose in the land." In Land Where My Fathers Died, a lawyer in a small Massachusetts town takes on the case of a man accused of murdering a local physician. Archimedes Nionakis knows that his client is innocent. He also realizes that in trying to find the real killer, "I was going to confront nothing as pure and recognizable as evil...