Word: wantonness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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That Moynihan's memo should have been misrepresented in the overheated political climate of the time is explicable if still reprehensible. But there is surely no reason to go on doing so today when the only purpose served is the wanton undermining of a brilliant public servant...
...Because there's no end to that prick." Much more accurately than the portentous statement, "Election Day: November 1968," such a gem of grafitti would have reflected the end of Shampoo's analysis of human behavior. It would have prepared us for what follows, a farce in which the wanton insatiable cocks and cunts of Los Angeles suburbanites become an overextended, tiresome metaphor for the political machinations of the pricks in Washington. It seems that every time two beautiful people are in close enough proximity to become aroused, Nixon's face appears on the screen, either on a wall poster...
...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...