All of this is upended yet again in act two, where suddenly Hirst and Spooner seem to be old acquaintances, with Hirst blithely telling Spooner he had a torrid affair with the other man's wife.
Audience members may cringe, even as they laugh along with the blithely merry cast.
When 2015 dawned, Sepp Blatter, Michel Platini, Jack Warner, Grigory Rodchenkov, Jérôme Valcke, Chung Mong-joon and a cast of dozens were swaggering around with their blithely untouchable air.
"Lemonade," with vocals blithely flitting around a quick-picked guitar line, juggles jealousy, curiosity and seagull sounds, and it eventually concludes both that "We're all just sleeping around" and "All we really want to do is love".
What about Zyklon B but, inside the briefing room, things hummed on for a few minutes, with Spicer blithely embracing a question about whether Ivanka Trump had, as her brother Eric told the Telegraph, influenced her father's decision to launch an air strike.
For this mad melodramatization of a desperate adventure of Bond with sinister characters in Istanbul and on the Orient Express is fictional exaggeration on a grand scale and in a dashing style, thoroughly illogical and improbable, but with tongue blithely wedged in cheek".
But in reality, the federal budget deficit has always been a less pressing issue than a state budget deficit -- with conservatives blithely pursuing unfunded wars and tax cuts and liberals expanding social programs -- because the feds are allowed to print money and run deficits and the states are not.
Once upon a time in the 1970s, dear reader, there were a string of big-budget movies--some of them box office bonanzas--in which clusters of former movie stars (Ernest Borgnine!! Shelley Winters!!) were stranded in a sinking ship or a skyscraper ablaze, with everybody blithely heading towards the disaster (there, I said it again) and either braving it out, succumbing to the flames/floods, or both.
Yet there is also danger in employing cultural symbols of such power so blithely, with such a willful disregard for reality.
The problem is, the more troubled Bryce is by the guilt and writer's block brought on by the death of Lucie, the more we have to wonder about Wayne, who appears to suffer no aftershock at all and who is able to go on blithely with his writing and his marriage to Susan.
Why should Summers and Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner have thought otherwise when most of us went along blithely with corporate practices of the past decade that would be described as corruption in many other parts of the world?
