Word: reckless
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...idea now being spread by reckless and overzealous advocates of drug-testing is, to paraphrase, that those who have nothing to worry about. Hence, therefore, ergo, rampant drug-testing cannot be a violation of anyone's Fourth Amendment protections against unreasonable searches and seizures...
YOSHIKI HISHINUMA, 27, is an anomaly. His clothes, rendered in magisterial folds of fabric and silhouettes that wed high drama to gut-level rock-'n'-roll spirit, appear to Western eyes to be the most formally Japanese. They have the reckless ebullience of decade-old Miyake, and they use the sort of unconventional material (like fishing line) that has been associated with the cutting edge in Tokyo. You can buy them in New York and Chicago, Hong Kong and Kuwait, but, Hishinuma says with some bemusement, they are "avant-garde and not very commercial," so they are not for sale...
...Director James Foley (Reckless) wants to iconize the whole pathetic crowd with his wide-screen technique. The telephoto lens sets small-town streets ashiver; dramatic lighting illuminates a face from no earthly source. The two Brads share an idyllic toke of "wacky tobaccy," gazing out at the rolling Appalachian farmland. Brad Sr. sits at the center of a Last Supper tableau of thieves, looking like Jesus looking for Judas. Every overwrought gesture, every pregnant banality, every brutal killing is elongated to impress upon us the moment's importance and sick beauty. This fetishized attention to detail produces some gorgeous picturemaking...
...gets right down to the nitty gritty of laying blame and answering the elusive question "why?," the report comes as the authoritative, official "Oh my God!"--the stamped-in-ink echo of last year's uproar. The report gets stuck in a set of stock condemnations--hasty, unreasonable, reckless--that don't tell us anything...
...what seems to be practical is not always politically feasible in Washington, especially during an election year. The rhetoric used by both sides so far has served only to polarize the debate and leave a confused public to believe that the choice is between reckless belligerency and naive isolationism. For Congress and the Administration alike, the challenge in the weeks ahead will be to shape a policy that balances diplomacy and force, and then, just as important, to stick...