Word: reckless
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Reckless Disregard...
...Reckless Disregard, like the trials it examines, is provocative but not very exciting stuff. Adler spent more than a year poring over transcripts of the trial and pre-trial depositions. Too often the book gets bogged down in the minutiae of the proceedings. More interesting is the controversy that has developed over Adler and her book...
...others, the whirlwind of activity seems more like a new variation on Mark Twain's Gilded Age, a time of reckless speculation and profiteering. Amid the hubbub of buying and selling, a host of probing questions are being asked about the stock market and its relationship to U.S. capitalism in general. Has the market become more volatile, risky and perhaps more irrational than ever before? Is it suddenly too treacherous for the ordinary investor? Is the very function of the market changing, as fast-buck artists crowd in to pursue big quick returns that have little or nothing...
...Goodman), his pal Ramon (Tito Larriva) and even Byrne in a gigolo's mustache, but also a little girl, a fat woman, a Prince look-alike and his votary (played by Fellow Heads Jerry Harrison and Tina Weymouth) -- get to put on the hit, and each does so with reckless style. Other songs show up disguised as TV commercials, voodoo incantations, 4-H boys' chants, a fashion-show monologue; and in each the down-home naivete of the lyrics twins neatly with the gotta-sing-along tunes. Hard not to have a lot of fun watching this movie...
What makes this response so astounding is that the cause of the accident couldn't be more patent. The suspect, Brian Confoy, alledgedly got rip-roaring drunk, seated himself behind the wheel of his car, and drove with reckless abandon, mowing down Ms. Steel in the process...