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...euphoric effects of cocaine are well known. Heroin kills more of its users, but it acquired a uniquely dark stigma partly because of the backward quality of the opiate high: blissfully heedless, droopy, tuned out, lazy beyond words. Stimulant cocaine, however, is far more in tune with the swaggering mood of a country of nonstop gogetters. Users tend to have the perfect illusion, for 20 or 30 minutes, that they are smarter, sexier and more competent, radiant, vigilant, masterful, better: it promotes a kind of fascism of the self. (Indeed, Hermann Goring, a morphine user, is rumored to have used...
...Caribbean democracies would be better equipped to face their woes if they could learn to pull in tandem. But unique forces seem to work against that possibility. After three centuries of slavery and colonialism, independence has inspired a heady and often heedless individualism. Says Journalist Ulric Mentus: "People cherish their freedom. They think of dancing in the streets, throwing out their leaders and not going to work if they don't feel like it as all part of the same democracy. They will not vote for any government they cannot tell to go to hell...
...Ariel Sharon did lie, repeatedly, to the Israeli Cabinet as to the progress of the war in Lebanon. This was pointed out most notably in the Israeli press, and further confirmed by the Cabinet's order in August to Sharon to report planned military actions, in response to the heedless nature of his approach in Beirut...
...into a Wittenbergian "Wunderbar," and "inexplicable" is mispronounced. On holding Yorick's skull, Hamlet comments, "I knew him, Horatio, a fellow of infinite jest. "But Walken says, "I knew him, [Long pause] Horatio a fellow of infinite jest." When we reach the Prince's dying words, Walken is so heedless of meter that the beautiful line. "Absent thee from felicity awhile" emerges with an accent on the first syllable...
Throughout his long career, Cheever kept an elegant account of both the price and value of experience: the piper must be paid, but the music is wonderful. His vision was moral and sensuous at the same time. His heedless libertines do not appreciate what they are enjoying, nor do his cynics know what they are missing. "Oh, what can you do with a man like that?" asks the narrator of one of his stories. "How can you dissuade his eye in a crowd from seeking out the cheek with acne, the infirm hand; how can you teach him to respond...