Word: heedlessness
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...confident ideology. Ignatz's wife (played first by Jennifer Ehle, then by her mother Rosemary Harris) is his opposite--serene, patient an exemplary survivor. Written by Szabo and playwright Israel Horovitz, Sunshine is a trifle schematic. But it also makes you feel, quite poignantly, the crushing tides of history: heedless, inhuman--and tragic...
...Whether or not Americans are oblivious about the past, it's troubling that they seem relatively heedless about the way that others may see them in the present. The New York Times has done an interesting roundup piece about "a growing backlash of anti-Americanism in Europe, especially in France, where a member of parliament named No?l Mam?re has written a book called "No Thanks, Uncle Sam," a catalogue of American gaucheries and moral derelictions ranging from too much crime and too many guns to capital punishment to inadequate health care for the poor. For all of my life, Europeans...
...central figure, Edward (Colin Firth), an impractical inventor trying to make a go of moss farming. He is at once pious and lustful (his determined eye is cast at his brother-in-law's pretty French fiance), a good father to his numerous brood, yet sometimes abrupt and heedless of them. He's a stormy character, all right, but an unfocused one, and this well-cast adaptation of a memoir by a British TV executive is disjointed, only queasily humorous and too casual about its dark undercurrents...
...such luscious insanity? She is the absolute triumph of political incorrectness. When she swivels aboard a cruise ship in clinging jersey and a floor-length leopard-skin scarf and matching muff, she handily offends feminists, animal-rights activists and good Christians everywhere, and she wins, because shimmering, jewel-encrusted, heedless movie stardom defeats all common morality. Her wit completes her cosmic victory, particularly in her facial expression of painful, soul-wrenching yearning when gazing upon a diamond tiara, a trinket she initially attempts to wear around her neck. Discovering the item's true function, she burbles, "I always love finding...
...that kind of four-on-the-floor joyride, seemingly heedless of Hollywood story conventions as it spins from one attractive group of actors to the next. When Polley disappears after 40 minutes, you may feel no one can take her place; then Diggs (our choice for Afro-fab star of the future) assumes center screen and is just as beguiling. Wolf is delightfully disdainful of getting an ear kiss from the narc's free-love wife: "And that ear thing. I have Q-Tips, thank you." Olyphant is also an accomplished hunk. In fact, why not round up the entire...