Word: wantonness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...system broadcast the President's Great Hall speech, 17 passages were judged provocative and excised (see box). To be sure, the speech also demonstrated that while the President has largely reversed himself on China, his conservative rhetoric has lost none of its crackle. He called the Soviet Union "wanton" and "brutal," and ascribed America's success to liberty and godliness. Although the President and his party made light of Chinese TV's bowdlerization of the speech (said Reagan to reporters: "You fellows do it all the time"), the Americans were sore over the incident...
...center to the Boston Celtics' Bill Russell, Thompson is an equally compelling study. "We're good friends," says Russell, "and philosophical allies." The coach is a mountainous black man with an entirely and overtly black team. Freshman Michael Graham, 6 ft. 9, by some accounts a wanton player, shaves his head. In appearance and manner, he resembles Actor James Earl Jones portraying the boxer Jack Johnson, thumping his chest and shouting, "It's my turn, and I'm going to take my turn." Thompson smiles when he notes, "We like to tease our enemies...
...fiction. The fact that the plane, the liner and the sub are sso toylike carries one back to the I mock battles of the nursery, to the child's delight in constructing harmless miniature wrecks that dis charge the aggressions of child? hood. "As flies to wanton boys, are we to the gods; They kill us for their sport." So the real subject of Morley's painting is not so much the death of people or the destruction of machinery as the general, "ineradicable ground of adult violence in the infant psyche...
...John Riggins and I came into the league the same year, and I like him," says Lyle Alzado, a particularly wanton defensive lineman. "But if he tries to run around my end, I'm going to have to take his head off." A similar warning-"beheaded" was the word used-has been issued to Wide Receiver Charlie Brown from Cornerback Lester Hayes, a sticky individual who used to ladle caramel all over himself until the league observed he was intercepting passes without knowing...
With America revelling in the wanton machismo of Grenada and pseudo-Keynesian recovery, the political climate is perfect for Reagan retirement...