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Spokesmen at Runcie's Lambeth Palace headquarters issued a statement lambasting what they called Bennett's"disregard for the clearly understood presentregulations of the Church of England...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Archbishop Visits for 350th | 10/9/1986 | See Source »

...those notions I'd stored in the back of my mind for a long time, a notion that refused to die. It drove me to pull $200 from my BayBanks account. It drove me blatantly to disregard the thought of four Monday classes. And it drove me to catch a cab into Kenmore Square...

Author: By Jessica Dorman, | Title: A Journey Between Bonfires and Sleeping Bags | 10/7/1986 | See Source »

...great many of the King-Bachman books seem to have been written on a word processor by a word processor. The author often employs three exclamation points !!! where one would suffice, shows a blithe disregard for grammar ("My mother used to tell my brother David and I to 'hope for the best and expect the worst' "), and produces metaphors that obviously embarrass their creator: "He felt that he had unwittingly stuck his hand into the Great Wasps' Nest of Life. As an image it stank." But all along he displays one talent that never flags -- he is able to convince...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: King of Horror | 10/6/1986 | See Source »

...head like a boxwood bush and streaks it with rainbows to spell out individuality. Even as its children have taken to emulating him, the Oklahoma Bible Belt has somehow been able to rationalize Bosworth, to forgive the occasional "loogie" he talks of spitting into opponents' faces, and to disregard some other troubling things he says, like "I used to beat my sisters with whips...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Miami Against the World | 10/6/1986 | See Source »

...planning the celebration, the dean of students, Archie C. Epps III, and his small, select group of student assistants demonstrated a callous disregard for the community at large...

Author: By David J. Barron, | Title: An Unhappy Birthday | 9/30/1986 | See Source »

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