Word: wantonness
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Initial reports from the remote northern reaches of Burundi had a nightmarish quality. Mass panic. Thousands killed. Peasants wielding machetes and spears against soldiers armed with high-tech weapons. Waves of fleeing refugees. Widespread accounts of wanton revenge and murder...
...unconstitutional and proceeds to sign it anyway," he declared last week. "If the Vice President is saying that he would sign an unconstitutional bill, then in my judgment he is not fit to hold office." Escalating the hyperbole, Dukakis likened Bush's stance on the pledge to the wanton disregard for law revealed in the Iran-contra affair: "We've had a series of incidents in this Administration where laws were broken or ignored, and I don't know if this is part of a pattern." Dukakis' subtext: "I'm more responsible than the other...
...otherworldly deep- ( sea diver (Jean-Marc Barr). But he has eyes only for dolphins and, vagrantly, for his fiercest competitor (Jean Reno). Two men dive to the depths -- and, perhaps, the death -- while she stays behind and paints Barr's apartment. Arquette has always looked like the last wanton of Woodstock, taunting the zippered-up '80s with her lithe carnality. But here she's baggage: the petulant voice of logic in the ear of an innocent sea creature. "I'm here! I'm real! I exist!" she shouts to him, and he dips into the sea like Flipper. Why would...
...that a nice garden helps sell a house." Considerable seed money has been directed into landscaping, roughly $3 billion last year, $745 million more than the year before. Such expenditures, by some estimates, can boost the value of real estate by 7% to 15%. Young anglophiles hope that a wanton English garden with piles of ivy and wisteria will add some majesty to the estate. Never mind that few climates in the U.S. could conceivably produce the soggy consolation that England provides its gardeners. What weather cannot provide, clutter can. So there is a thriving market in gazebo kits, stone...
...declares war on her erstwhile sparring partner, fills the play's final minutes with haze and glare and an eerie, slow-motion duel. The end brings wholly unanticipated griefs to the apparent survivors. Yet there is no comforting afterglow of justice or even vengeance -- only the acrid residue of wanton agony...