Word: heartlessness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Simone: Bardot is great, isn't she? Perfectly frank sexuality. A little heartless, maybe, a little unemotional, but no trickery, no "feminine wiles," no bangles and baubles. That's why she upsets European men so much: she doesn't keep in her place. They can't ravish her. She meets them on their own ground...
...takes more than two hours for everything to work out perfectly. In the meantime, several geese are shot down, which means that some rich, heartless hunters have to be driven off. While Ed Wynn and Walter Brennan spew local color, Brandon deWilde survives hand-to-claw combat with a snarling wolverine, beats up the town bully, and finally notices that his childhood playmate (Linda Evans) seems different, somehow, now that she's 17. The bear exits and enters to signal the passing seasons. Fall or winter, though, Those Galloways' Vermont is effulgently photographed. Children...
Cuts in nondefense spending amounted to a hefty,$2.1 billion. Some $730 million was trimmed from Veterans Administration expenditures alone, including a proposed shutdown of 14 VA hospitals ("heartless" and "an outrage," said Senate Majority Leader Mike Mansfield). Other economies ranged from a $430 million cut in agricultural price supports to an estimated $4,000,000 saving from a ban on purchases of new filing cabinets by federal agencies...
...Reform Judaism's leading theologians, suggests that Wine ought to drop all pretenses entirely and call his Birmingham Temple the "rationalist association of Detroit." "When he uses the title rabbi and the term synagogue or temple," says Rabbi Freehof, "he is luring in new members by false and heartless pretenses...
Spade is the quintessence of the heartless pragmatist--the sardonic, self-interested loner who rolls his own cigarettes, and who just happens to operate within the limits of the law most of the time because he knows he's better off that way. He's so callous he hardly reacts when he hears his partner has been murdered. He doesn't bother to look at the body. Asked if the partner were married, he replies curtly, "Yeah, with 10,000 insurance, no children, and a wife who didn't like him." His only immediate concerns after the murder...