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insouciant - (adj) carefree and unconcerned
A search on Google News for “insouciant Ocean’s Thirteen” produced these results:
“Clooney, Pitt, Damon: as insouciant as ever, tossing off the repartee with an ease [...]
Heidi Klum has an avidity for shopping at flea markets and she shares her tenets for procuring bargains: 1. if you are vacillating over an item, do not buy it; 2. be coquettish; 3. do not act impetuously; 4. when haggling over a price, name an amount lower than you think you should pay; 5. [...]
Reese Witherspoon and Ryan Phillippe, who have spoken candidly in the past about the challenges of matrimony, announced that they are formally separating. In 2002, Ryan explained that they were seeking marriage counseling because “the biggest mistake” is circumventing the problem and allowing the relationship to disintegrate as a result of indolence. At [...]
Courtney Love explains that should she need to mitigate indigent circumstances for her daughter Frances, she would not hesitate to sell Nirvana songs for pecuniary gain. She realizes that this may create a schism between her and the fans of her late husband Kurt Cobain, but she would rather incur their wrath than condemn Frances [...]
Adam Brody and Luke Perry visited Kent State University to speak in support of Democrat Sherrod Brown in his campaign to represent Ohio in the U.S. Senate. Both Adam and Luke exhorted students to exercise their right to vote. Adam offered his perspective to the prospective voters, telling them, “You are no longer the future, [...]
Jay-Z is collaborating with the United Nations in an endeavor to focus attention on the world’s water crisis. The paucity of clean water affects one third of the global population, and over 4,500 children die every day from preventable diseases caused by noxious water and substandard sanitation. MTV is filming the star’s international tour to [...]
The Kalahari Bushmen have besought Leonardo DiCaprio for succor in their battle with the government of Botswana. The Bushmen are facing imminent eviction from their land in the Central Kalahari Desert so that the government can consummate an agreement with mining companies over the rights to cull diamonds from the region. Leonardo stars in Blood [...]
George Clooney is addressing the United Nations about the government of Sudan’s draconian campaign of genocide that has left at least 400,000 dead, 2.5 million displaced, and 3.5 million dependent on international humanitarian aid. The strife in the Darfur region of Sudan began in 2003, when African rebels mobilized in protest of the central government’s [...]
Brad Pitt wrote a feature for Esquire entitled “Fifteen Things I Think Everyone Should Know.” His list includes a polemic on the futility of spending inordinate sums of money on the drug war; a personal statement about his advocacy of adoption; a plea for a new paradigm regarding human consumption and the environment; an homage [...]
Guerrilla artist Banksy doctored 500 Paris Hilton CDs and smuggled the ersatz copies into record stores throughout the United Kingdom, beguiling store owners and consumers to make an artistic statement on the folly of celebrity. The substitutes are replete with satirical imagery:
one picture has been rendered pornographic through the repositioning of her dress to reveal [...]
