Word: heedless
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...retrospect, you could say they married too hastily, heedless of how different they really were: one charming and vain; the other fusty and proud. And both of them so needy. Then came the bickering, the betrayal, the recriminations--and the long, frosty silences. Now the question is: Should Bill Clinton and the Democrats in Congress stay together for the sake of the family, or would the party be better off if they went their separate ways...
...ranks of crosses, their fearful symmetry broken here and there by a Star of David. Finding the grave he seeks, he falls to his knees sobbing, overwhelmed by that flood of memories it is Spielberg's business to reimagine, then to incise on the minds of a generation dismayingly heedless of history...
...eased him across the line separating delinquency from criminality. The scariest thing about this difficult, duplicitous movie is the invincibility of Francie's ignorance on this point and the vivid gloss this offers on our unending concern about the power of crud culture to bend vulnerable minds to its heedless will...
...warm young voices, the sonorous old voices. Billions of words about it were printed, and closely read. In Accra, where the equatorial sun beats down on the white church steeples (relics of a vanished Danish empire), parties were held in celebration. Paris noted it, and Panama. In heedless Manhattan, thousands got out of bed at 6 a.m. to hang over radios. Shanghai and Hankow had never seen so many weddings; Chinese brides deemed it lucky to be married on the day that Elizabeth, heiress to Britain's throne, became the wife of Philip Mountbatten...
...yourself, go to ZDNet's PC Week Online zdnet.com/pcweek for a video playback of the Microsoft chairman's floor technique. All in all, it was a fine way to undercut a nasty spate of bad p.r.--if this decade's Darth Vader can cut loose like a heedless frat boy, he can't be all bad, right? Especially with that...