Word: carelessly
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...President Kennedy by Richard Reeves. We knew he was no saint. Now we have 800 carefully researched pages to tell us that J.F.K. was more Hollywood than Harvard, a gifted politician who relied on his charm rather than deep understanding and conviction. He was often ''careless and dangerously disorganized.'' The image of vigor was also an illusion: hormone shots compensated for failing adrenal glands and amphetamines perked him up. Reeves' dose of reality is a needed antidote to the cloying hagiographies that have marked the 30th anniversary of J.F.K.'s death...
...excellent Jamie Foxx) they play brutal football games in full field regalia. And await the inevitable Dear John letters from home (one of which arrives in the form of a video showing a wife having it off with a civilian back home). And set their tent afire with some careless cookery...
...crime, Evan Gentler, a recent graduate of Oberlin music college, are more focused than any yuppy dreaming of that final Goldman Sachs interview (yes, ’tis the season to be recruited for an I-bank). The duo aim to make their current rock duo Called and Careless, which Carbone somewhat clumsily describes as “progressive grunge alternative rock,” their life. “The band is my career,” says Carbone. “My major is a tricky story. I’m stuck in economics after long fights with...
Seemingly mediocre math problems that somehow trick the solver into making careless errors. Compiling lists of vocabulary words for short-term mass-memorization. The pain generated by graduate school preparation stands to be lessened considerably by changes in the Graduate Record Examination (GRE) set to take effect in a year’s time. And we wholly endorse anything that minimizes a Harvard student’s stress level. The GRE, an examination required for admission to nearly every reputable graduate program, has long been little more than a rearranged SAT with more sophisticated vocabulary and reading passages. But with...
...furniture are meticulously shaded, while an entire ottoman is only half-painted. Part of the white chair has been painted over the dramatic scarlet fabric that lies on it. In contrast, the door behind the piano is sharply outlined. Wolohojian emphasizes that these inconsistencies were deliberate not careless, and that the scarlet fabric in the foreground might be somehow symbolic of passion and betrayal...