Word: thoughtless
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...something more than a one-dimensional characterization. Her Duchess is a skittish teenager, determined to do just as she pleases. She falls in love with her steward, contracting a secret marriage with him, and that mesalliance causes her downfall. Yet Bendheim does not make the Duchess a giddy and thoughtless girl. Though young, the Duchess is nevertheless a great aristocrat, fully aware of the responsibilities of her social position and of the danger in which her marriage will place her. At one moment, Bendheim skips for joy; at another, she dismisses her servants with a single high-handed gesture...
Farley Mowat is a small, bearded Canadian who writes with a certain bitter charm about the thoughtless destruction of the Far North and its native inhabitants. He has a passion for permafrost, Eskimos, whales, seals and wolves. He has lived a chapped and manly life in rural Ontario, on the Keewatin Barren Lands and in balky old boats off Newfoundland...
Gere isn't beautiful all the time, however, His character is a dip, moreover--slow, thoughtless, imbecilic, lacking personality and the ability to muster emotion. Schrader cast Poor Richard as a giant, swaggering, vending-machine penis, the only item Frederick's of Hollywood doesn't carry, a French tickler with batteries. Self-indulgent, he takes more time choosing an outfit than he does kissing Lauren Hutton to a silly-faced plateau of pleasure. Rarely can he park his 450 SEL without it lurching forward as he jumps out. He picks up women in foreign languages, yet he speaks French like...