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...sequined dress as a child might. At a dinner following the opera, she walked, alone, down a huge winding staircase without ever looking at her feet, so we knew she was a princess. But at dinner she ate like your sister, tearing into her meal with a kind of wanton delight, turning aside her lady-in-waiting's insistence that it was time to be leaving with the flat observation that dessert hadn't come yet. There are those who will see in this scene the evidence of an emergent eating disorder. I saw it as evidence of the loveliness...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PRINCESS DIANA, 1961-1997: AN EVENING OUT WITH DIANA | 9/8/1997 | See Source »

...order to prevail in court, a plaintiff needs to show that the marriage was perking along quite contentedly until a wanton intruder came along to wreck it. The complaint charges that Dorothy enjoyed the "love, society, companionship, support, affection, right of consortium and kindly offices" of Joseph until Cox "intentionally, wrongfully and unjustifiably and with malice alienated and destroyed a love and affection that previously existed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AN ANTIQUE LAW SENDS TREMORS THROUGH MANY A HEART | 8/18/1997 | See Source »

...deaths of Biggie and Tupac have made wanton murder seem more real even to those who are removed from the mayhem of the streets. But the question: "When will the killing stop?" remains impossible to answer...

Author: By David W. Brown, | Title: Who Shot Ya? | 3/19/1997 | See Source »

...them. Only when man fell to temptation did the natural world receive a coating of evil. But according to Darwinism, the evil in nature lies at its very roots, instilled by its creator, natural selection. After all, natural selection is chronic competition untrammeled by moral rules. Heedless selfishness and wanton predation are traits likely to endure. If these things are sins, then the roots of sin lie at the origin--not just of humankind but of life...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SCIENCE AND ORIGINAL SIN | 10/28/1996 | See Source »

...agree with Paul. In fact, advocates of same-sex marriage and their opponents concur that it is better to marry than almost anything else. They both embrace the idea that marriage is the bedrock of a stable society, and that it is the ideal method of civilizing wayward and wanton males, something every society must do. In short, hooray for till-death-us-do-part. The only problem is that both sides disagree vehemently on who should be allowed to take that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ISSUES '96: FOR BETTER OR FOR WORSE? | 6/3/1996 | See Source »

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