Word: heedless
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...stoic, all triumphs without joy. Movement is glacial, dialogue wooden, characterizations blurred. One has a feeling that this project-brought to fruition without the financial support of the film industry, by three young woman producers who love the Olsen work-is faithful to the letter of the book, but heedless of the need to give the story a freer, less cautious life in a new medium. What sympathy one feels for the attempt to solve difficult problems of translation is soon submerged in a tedium that could be dangerous. A couple more minutes of this stuff could lead to Altered...
...last injunction to Leonard was to burn all her papers. He ignored it, as did most of her correspondents. The posterity of which she was so heedless can only be grateful, since this was what enabled Nicolson and Co-Editor Joanne Trautmann to assemble such a monumental collection. Even Horace Walpole, however perplexed he might have been by its modernity, would have made a deep 18th century bow to its greatness...
...shoreline of the U.S. runs for 53,677 miles-and that figure does not include the lengthy coasts of Alaska and Hawaii. But not all is sandy beaches, suntanned bodies, squawking gulls and imposing cliffs. Increasingly, the American coast is becoming a victim of its own magnetism: it attracts heedless development that is fouling its beauty, undermining its ecological importance, and crippling its ability to stand up to nature's winds and waves...
That idealized view gave way to one of America as too rich, too powerful, too heedless of fate. Today Europe's complaint is that America is not rich enough, not powerful enough-and still too heedless of fate. These perceptions of America's early virtue and later vices, of its pre-Viet Nam power and its present weakness, share one quality: they are feverishly overblown...
...Only big business generally ranks lower than Congress.) Until the Abscam evidence is finally evaluated in the courts-and no indictments are anticipated in less than three months-cynics can say that their suspicions have been justified: all too many legislators are heedless of the national interest and also personally corrupt...