Word: wantonness
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Even assuming for a moment that TV does wield the incredible influence Senator Simon and his intellectual cronies claim, the result would hardly be wanton violence. TV may be violent, but on TV the bad guys always get killed in the end and murderers are always uncovered...
...Clair doesn't have to carry the show alone. Titanic (Adam Geyer), Oberon's lustful wife (there are just a few too many wanton characters sleazing around the stage this year), delivers a magnificent torch long performance in her milky Daerie Queen outfit. Geyer's delivery almost hides the fact that the song is much too maudlin for the Pudding. Almost...
...fighting has opened a door upon horrors -- the wanton siege of Sarajevo, the death camps and other atrocities of "ethnic cleansing" -- suggesting that atavistic nationalisms, or tribalisms, may lie just beneath the civil veneers. The abuses of Bosnian women open a perspective upon wartime rape that is equally terrible. In Bosnia, rape, far from being a side effect of war, has become one of the indispensable instruments of war. The battleground is not only villages and countryside but also women's bodies...
...have to bear a few dirty looks from my classmates but that's a small price to pay for my rhetorical irresponsibility and wanton disruption of time. And my big, fat "A" will be comfort enough...
...that it is a gutted shell. In a city where more than 17,000 have been killed and 110,000 wounded since the siege began last spring, it may be odd to be disturbed by the fate of a building. But to murder a library is metaphysically sinister and wanton. What dies, of course, is more than individual life -- the stuff of the civilization, the transmission of past to future, goes up in smoke. It is not an accident...