Word: reckless
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...been less than a decade since Columbus's first feature film--Reckless, which he wrote in college. Inspired by the music of Bruce Springsteen, the movie "celebrated escape," Columbus says. It was a dismal failure: the film company "took the script away from me and added 20 minutes of sex. The film was originally rated X. It was just a mess...
...spirit of giving seems to pervade the Deadhead culture. When we ran into someone with two tickets for sale, I offered him $50 for both, even though we had previously agreed that we would go as high as $35 apiece. Startled by my reckless spending, he said, "Wait a minute, I'm not out to make a profit or anything. Take 'em for $45." After giving him the money, a friend said, "See? No one's here to make money. They just want to make sure everyone gets in!" Dumb-founded I took the ticket, and we headed...
This is Spoon River Anthology meets Saturday Night Live, an anachronistic blend of reckless humor and ironic pathos that goes down easiest when it's not taking itself too seriously. Unfortunately, they're only half-kidding when they promise to "warm the cockles of your heart." Following a fast-paced first act, the second half becomes weighed down in soul-searching soliloquies, a last try at serious reflection that comes too late in the show. Otherwise Greater Tuna's frank attitude that life is dull only if you think about it serves up raucous relief from postmodern boredom...
ASIDE FROM the patent bigotry of his remarks, Cameron demonstrated a reckless disregard for the medical realities of the disease. Research indicates that AIDS can only be transmitted by sexual contact, use of contaminated hypodermic needles, and transfusions of blood containing the virus. Moreover, not everyone who carries the AIDS virus develops symptoms...
...spacious feel, Rebel never gave Dean enough room to strut his stuff. As a frinstance, he never gets a chance to play the role he most convincingly embodied--that of the reckless actor killing himself in a car accident...