Word: disregard
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...artists display a nearly absolute disregard for the canons and lessons of "classical" modern art. "Maybe it's a perversion, or an alienation, or a toughness," says Painter George Cohen, "or maybe we're just losers. But there is a reluctance to do something just because it's 'right.' " Indeed, as the show repeatedly proves, Chicagoans take more pleasure in doing things that are "wrong": scrambled, left-footed, irretrievably vulgar, offensive in subject matter...
...immense economic shifts in modern Italy (now ranked seventh among the world's industrial nations) have produced staggering effects on the look of the country. Italians put their oil refineries on the coast, usually siting them with a grotesque disregard for the environment in now vanishing beauty spots like Portovenere. Some 4,000 miles of the country's shore line is permanently fouled by oil slicks and industrial wastes from 140,000 coastal factories. Inland, the dumping of industrial wastes has become so chronic that Milanese rice, once the staple of every decent risotto, grows poorly...
...violated the antipollution law when it approved 100 sites in those areas for public housing projects. The complaint says: "As a statistical whole, low income families ... possess social class characteristics which will and have been inimical and harmful to the legitimate interests of the plaintiffs." Among the characteristics named: "Disregard for physical and aesthetic maintenance of real and personal property, a higher propensity for criminal behavior and acts of physical violence and a lower commitment to hard work...
...prowess. It turned out that an A.P. technician in New York, using the hoary rhyme to test what he thought was an in-house circuit, had inadvertently cut into the agency's "A" wire, the conduit for top stories. A.P. fired the culprit and sent out an urgent "disregard" order-in prose...
...HARVARD Corporation's decision to retain its stock in the Gulf Oil Company, delivered in defiance of black leaders both here at Harvard and throughout the country, illustrates the University's callous disregard for the lives of black people in Angola...