Word: heedless
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Plots eventually intrude in both books -- a jail term in Social Disease, a heist at L.L. Bean in I'll Take It -- but these are as unwelcome as the roast beef a heedless hostess might plop on Paul's dinner plate. The M&M's of bon mots are the real nourishment. Which suggests a criticism of Rudnick's prose: it's all candy. Wouldn't a truly serious author hang crape on Guy and Venice, or Hedy and her sisters? But Rudnick sees them as variations on the Addams family: they may be crazy, but they have...
...open with no commissioner of baseball or heir apparent. In the counting houses off the field, schemes are being hatched to transform the leisurely unfolding of the 162-game season into a juiced-up MTV video, complete with expanded play- offs, wild-card teams, Monday-night interleague contests and heedless expansion certain to dilute the quality of the game. Traditionalists may look back on 1993 with nostalgia as the last old-fashioned baseball season...
...newer focus addresses environmental concerns and the need for sustainable development, a direct contrast with the heedless rush to unbridled modernization...
...potential for disaster is only beginning to be appreciated. For years residents and businesses around Bowling Green, Kentucky, pumped or buried solvents and wastes in the ground, heedless of the fact that the city of 40,000 sits on karst. In effect, they turned the underlying caves into a toxic sewer. Twice during the 1980s, benzene and other chemicals rose up from the caves into homes and elementary schools, endangering people's lives...
...should one say lust? Anyway, what happens to them is careless and heedless. The actors bring a terrifying, clarifying force to their representation of an unsentimental sexual education, more powerful than any the movies have lately given us. There is something of Adam and Eve in their innocence. Except that as flashbacks within the flashback unfold, we realize that this Adam is already tainted by something like original sin, visited on him by his family's history (and symbolized by the hulking, tragic presence of his mentally deficient older brother), and that this Eve's temptation is, if anything, more...