Word: wantonly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...specified at least four bases for our appeal besides, as the story puts it, "that the jury found Edelin guilty of charges that were not those in the original accusations." Dr. Edelin was charged with manslaughter, which, if alleged to be involuntary, requires proof beyond a reasonable doubt of "wanton and reckless conduct" rather than, as the story puts it, "ruthless and reckless conduct...
...option on The Melvin Dummar Story. NBC, CBS and ABC all are producing specials on Hughes. The British Broadcasting Corp. and CTV are teaming up to produce a 90-minute dramatized documentary. Seven books are in the works, including a William Morrow edition titled His Weird and Wanton Ways: The Secret of Howard Hughes, by Richard Mathison...
Unthrifty Son. The playwright also appropriates the changing character of Prince Hal from Falstaffs history, virtually without alteration. When Bolingbroke, the nearly crowned Henry IV, sneers despairingly at "my unthrifty son ... young wanton and effeminate boy" in the fifth act of Richard II, he is no distance at all from Falstaffs characterization of the young Hal as "the lad who was twice sick in my hat." Hal's cold renunciation of Falstaff on coronation day in Henry V is- begging the difference of a thy and a thee- word for word the same in the play and the autobiography...
STILL THE SHOW has pretensions to verite. "The Wanton Wind isn't a metaphor for life; it is life," one of its stars insists. That's where the actors themselves come in. If we can't believe totally in The Wanton Wind, can't in the space of the couple of episodes we're presented with begin to empathize with its characters, we still have a chance to worry about the future of the actors who play them. As it turns out, though, they are hardly less one-dimensional or stylized than their roles; the aging star, the actor...
...actors' recognition of their dependence on the show. But, with all the switching about from the play-within-a-play to the action which frames it and all the appeals for audience participation, we never really do start to care deeply about the characters in either Soap or The Wanton Wind. The night I went the audience voted almost unanimously to cancel the show...