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...phoniness and stifling conformity of the adult world Benjamin was being asked to join. The word itself was an epithet, as in "Plastic Pat" Nixon or these Jimi Hendrix lyrics from the song If 6 Was 9, talked-sung with a straight face and an up-the-Establishment disregard for grammar: "White collared conservative flashing down the street,/Pointing their plastic finger...
...blame her parents for not putting her on the Pill, her teachers for not handing her condoms to use when she wanted to have sex, or a political party for wanting to preserve life. Drexler knew she was expecting and had time to have a legal abortion. This horrible disregard for life should leave everyone looking no further than the killer's eyes. LORI ANNE CARTER Georgetown, Ohio...
Today, there is no Stalin to give orders. If a nation is isolated from the international community now, it is either because the country is simply too weak to meet international standards or because its leaders have chosen willfully to disregard those standards...
...about 23 weeks. Yet Republicans preferred to cling to their own doomed bill rather than give up a potent political issue or accept Daschle's exception to the ban for women whose pregnancies could cause "grievous physical injury"--even though that closes the mental-health loophole. If it's disregard for life that turns girls like Melissa into murderous monsters, then the Republicans need look no farther than themselves for someone to blame...
...after a while, you'll have come to either trust my observational skills or disregard them. But--and this is the important part--I don't see how you can ever come to respect any praise I give to a team or a player unless I am open to criticizing it or him or her. It is precisely because I saw and remarked upon Prestifilippo's flaws that you should believe me when I say that he was the Crimson's MVP this past year, that he grew into his role and got better and better as the season went...