Word: heartlessly
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...posed the oft-mentioned hypothetical whereby a man can divert a runaway train onto a different track, destroying his most prized possession, a Bugatti sports car, but saving the life of a child further down the track. Only the most heartless of humans would approve of his actions should he choose not to divert the train and instead place the value of his car above the value of the child...
...readers revere us - while calling us heartless when we don't like a film they love, and snobbish when we like a film they wouldn't care to see. Our publishers cherish our expertise, although they'd rather print profiles of stars than reviews of the movies they're in. The big movie studios are crazy about us - although they keep us out of screenings that every other staffer on the newspaper or magazine is invited...
...MASH had the shock of the new. With its boisterous camaraderie, hearty and heartless, the film virtually created the modern concept of hipness. It kept surfacing in the overdog comedy of National Lampoon and Saturday Night Live and David Letterman and Spy magazine, in the stoned bravado of Bill and Ted and Beavis and Butt-head. (The Bill Murray persona, of blithe sarcasm and weary soldiering-on, could have been invented by Altman; it's a shame the two men never made a film together.) Amid the triage of Korea - read: Vietnam - Altman's super-cool medics found fraternity...
...Zoellner is the author of The Heartless Stone...
...about to wrap a string of organic hemp around my finger and call it a ring, I do sometimes wonder if a couple about to be married could better spend that money elsewhere. Interestingly, as Tom Zoellner writes in his book on the diamond industry The Heartless Stone, American men are expected to spend two months' salary, but for British men, it's only one month. Japanese men have an even worse deal: they're expected to spend three months of their hard-earned...