Word: disregard
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...Flash" (or "Neighbors" on the new album), rattling the ceiling and shaking the floor. Mick Jagger lets the mood and the rhythms and the words overrun his body as he raves on. But Jagger also has scorn for the power he wields. He slurs his meanest lines with utter disregard, perhaps to illustrate how idiotic it is to hang on every syllable he and Richards decide to cram into a verse. By the same token, take a look at any picture of minimalist drummer Charlie Watts in action, and you will probably find that famous wry smile and sweatless brow...
...deprived of subpoena power as a matter of department policy and was prevented by "bureaucratic infighting and naivete" from working with the Justice Department to build criminal cases. Most incredibly, the task force was ordered by Labor higher-ups not to conduct "third party" inquiries-that is, to disregard officially the unsavory recipients of Teamster loans...
...Falcon, with Humphrey Bogart and Sidney Greenstreet, was the third film based on that book in ten years. Hammett had always shown a streak of to-hell-with-it independence, and success made him increasingly reckless. He partied and drank too much, offended studio heads and publishers with his disregard for deadlines. He ran up huge bills that he declined...
...that the Iraqi raid was designed to boost Begin's election chances and to deliver a message to the Syrians about their SA-6 missiles, which the Israelis have threatened to destroy. Seethed one British Cabinet member: "It is a measure of Begin's fanaticism, personal ambition and total disregard of the truth that he was prepared to risk the peace of the Middle East, and even world peace, to achieve his ends." Skepticism increased when IAEA Director-General Eklund agreed with the Iraqis' claim that they had not been trying to make a weapon with their reactor. Even...
...maintaining grudges. Byrne snaps out her feelings and shifts alliances without warning. Byrne has a whim of iron: in just two years she ran through four police chiefs, three planning directors and five press secretaries. Said one bitter alderman, asked to list her strong points: "Vengeance, audacity and total disregard for human relationships...