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...theplay. Both her irritation and her good humor seemforced and rehearsed. Furthermore, she becomesstiff and wax-faced when she does not have to playa part in the conversation. When she is on centerstage, however, she is captivating. Her lustfulpursuit of any man who refuses to worship her andher total disregard for conventional morality makeher especially convincing as the "hard, crude,dirty minded" Hypatia...
...courtroom. "What he did to me was wrong," she said. "I don't want to live for the rest of my life in fear of that man. I don't want to be responsible for him doing it to someone else." Presiding judge Mary Lupo ordered jurors to disregard the statement. When attorney Black offered one last objection, the witness still did not buckle. "Sir," she said flatly, "your client raped me." Afterward, she left without saying a word...
...irresponsible to say that condom use should be disregarded simply because there is a possibility of failure; that is like saying that couples should disregard contraceptive use because the possibility still remains that the woman could become pregnant...
...Tiananmen Square failed to provoke may now come to pass because of an argument about . . . Mickey Mouse. Though the Bush Administration declined to punish China for the 1989 crackdown, it announced plans last week to unleash retaliatory tariffs worth up to $1.5 billion on Chinese exports. The reason: disregard by the Chinese for U.S. patents and copyrights covering books, audio and video recordings, computer software and such quintessentially American creations as Walt Disney's favorite rodent. The Chinese rarely pay for the use of such "intellectual property," resulting in serious losses to U.S. businesses...
Israel's critics choose to disregard the facts, and that leads them to blatantly misinterpret Israel's action...