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...recent theft of three masterworks from the Ducal Palace in Urbino, Italy (see ART), stirred the rage of TIME Critic Robert Hughes. Born in Australia, Hughes left home to study painting and sculpture in Italy. While living in the Tuscany region in 1964-65, Hughes learned firsthand the wanton nature of art thieves when they made off with the head of a statue of St. Paul in a church he often visited. Hughes traced the head as far as a "respectable" art dealer in Basel, Switzerland, but it was never returned to the church. Such theft, in his view...
...black. One juror quoted another as saying. "That nigger is guilty as sin." Apparently, some of the jurors viewed Edelin's race as a crime in itself. Furthermore the jury dealt with the judge's instructions haphazardly, substituting, for his stipulation that it must find Edelin guilty of "wanton and reckless" conduct in order to convict, its own speculation that he might have been remiss in checking to see if the fetus were alive upon removal, and was hence guilty...
...definition, terrorists are people who use indiscriminate violence as a means of achieving a political goal. To the victims of the violence-most recently the Israelis, who have suffered through years of wanton attacks by Palestinian bombers and gunmen-terrorists are callous, cowardly murderers preying on innocent women and children. For their part, terrorists usually present themselves as revolutionaries, guerrillas and freedom fighters. They defend the use of violence as the necessary tactic of downtrodden peoples seeking to combat oppressive or colonial governments. In the eyes of their followers, the terrorists' successful use of violence often adds to, rather...
After Rockefeller was excused, 22 witnesses got their chance to air their views on his nomination. Chief among them was Angela Davis, the black radical, who attacked Rockefeller for having permitted "one of the most wanton massacres in the history of the United States" at New York's Attica prison in 1971 during a revolt in which 32 prisoners and eleven hostages died. Rockefeller had told the Senators that while he deeply regretted the bloodshed, he still felt justified in having sent in the police to try to rescue the hostages. Said Rocky: "I do not believe in negotiating...
...women. First to be deflowered was F. Scott Fitzgerald's Daisy Buchanan in The Great Gatsby. Mia Farrow plays the role with all of its attendant splendour and graceful, but inevitably brutish, carelessness. Farrow maintains a delicate balance between a gay childishness with her illicit lover, Gatsby, and a wanton callousness, a total disregard for anybody's feelings. Henry James's novella, Daisy Miller, adapted for the screen by Peter Bogdanovich, is a portrait of exactly that kind of woman. But Cybill Shepherd's performance is slightly more questionable. In fact, the whole movie is questionable, like one of James...