Word: heedless
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...full of doubts, which assail her when she thinks no one is looking. This isn't acting, it's behaving. And it is behaving with a point. Without quite knowing it herself, this child-woman wants to become the good person that she inarticulately senses is hidden beneath her heedless petulance...
...heedless spending though. Lynn Franco, director of the Consumer Research Center at the Conference Board, an economic-research group that closely tracks consumer confidence, notes that the TV upgrades are typical of a purge-and-splurge shopping style that has emerged in the age of big-box discounters. "Consumers will trade up and buy down at the same time," Franco says. "They'll shop at Wal-Mart and buy a Lexus." With their relentless discount shopping and the occasional affordable luxury, consumers have kept the economic recovery going...
...Hope, who died last week at 100, was something else too: the voice of 20th century America at midpassage, the spokesman of our heedless, surface-skimming spirit, the comic for the age of the production line, churning out interchangeable, immediately disposable jokes at an industrial pace. His comic persona was primitive. He was a wolf, constantly leering at pretty women, constantly rejected by them (until the last reel). He was a coward, hiding his ignobility under instantly collapsible braggadocio...
Barlett and Steele shed light on some of the dark consequences of America's bottomless thirst for oil. At a time when our national energy and foreign policies, oil-driven as ever, seem so heedless of the future, perhaps such lessons from the past can help galvanize our will to change. THOMAS R. MARTON Brookline, Mass...
...suspect Kennedy was living on borrowed time. The media were beginning to change; their fascination with the young President and his family was intensifying daily. Had he lived into a second term, there was a good chance that one of the numberless and heedless stories of sexual indulgence would have broken over his head, embarrassing him and his family, perhaps crippling his presidency. In that case, Mimi might have got into the history books a lot sooner...