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Octogenarians have a more devil-may-care tactic: they are sometimes quite willing to crowd on some sail and see if they can't get a burst of speed out of the old hooker yet.

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Aquarius women have more a devil-may-care mentality, and generally aren't looking for approval from the rest of society.

Don't suddenly start dressing differently, or being more rebellious and devil-may-care.

A peculiarly Victorian dourness aside, the lady has a point: when one stops to consider the ingredients that go into these confections – butter, sugar, eggs, exotic fruits, spices and, of course, booze – they start to seem less the kind of thing one might expect to find in a Girl Guide's picnic baskets, and more a riot of devil-may-care festive decadence.

Likewise, Robert Pattinson's rat's-nest bouffant may look devil-may-care, but devil does care when there are photographers around.

Students also perceived unshaven, devil-may-care professors as more knowledgeable than ones in a dress shirt and tie.

Yet Spain started only 5 of the 11 players who won it the World Cup, knowing full well that Argentina, under its interim coach Sergio Batista, was now a more organized team than Diego Maradona's devil-may-care approach to the World Cup.

Now in his early seventies, Jackson continues to demonstrate remarkable stamina - the new works in this exhibition, like Bad Dog, display even more of the trademark cracking wit and devil-may-care energy that endeared us to his early work.

Yet with devil-may-care breeziness he announced more of the same: tighten the screw, cut deeper.

(The TSA likes to keep things more secure by avoiding any sweeping promises of devil-may-care screening).

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