Word: reckless
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...Fred Schepisi, traces the degeneration of Susan Traherne (Streep) from her work with the French Resistance in 1943 to her desertion of her husband almost 20 years later. Susan--part Joan of Archetype, part loony from Loonyville--is a bitter romantic who never got over her teenage crush on reckless idealism. During the war there was excitement to spare in her view of the British as parachuting | angels of mercy. Her one great moment of idealistic passion--in a tatty French hotel room with an exhausted soldier-hero--is the memory that sustains and destroys her life. Progressive change seemed...
Still, despite all her obvious flaws, he has to admit that Muriel has a certain flair. In one of her spirited moments, she belts out a reckless rendition of "War Is Hell On the Homefront, Too." Muriel, he realizes, is a fighter. Her pathetic ignorance wages war on the conventional proprieties that have long ossified the rest of the Learys. Macon's decision to give up middle-class respectability for its underside of secondhand thrift shops and carry-out pizza dinners turns out, ironically, to be less of an escape than an adventure in responsibility. He discovers himself feeling...
...premise is irresistible. Screenwriter Terry Johnson has adapted his London stage play, combines star-struck childhood fantasy with that most basic, and base, of human impulses--reckless voyeurism. Yoking together the competing myths of his protagonists, he unleashes them on unsuspecting viewers in a bizarre kind of Battle of the Network Stars...
...always had been a little reckless. He was an exceptionally smart kid, but he took few things seriously. He was in rare form the day we took the Scholastic Aptitude Test. The Proctor gave us a five-minute break between sections, but Ike stayed in the hall for 15 minutes. He took the test again and managed to impress the admissions people at Rice...
...times. They came to light only after publication of the article, through the long and arduous process of pre-trial discovery and deposition. Our position in and out of court was that despite them, the article was "substantially true" and that the errors were neither intentional nor published with reckless disregard for the truth. In this we have asked to be upheld by the court. Michael C. Janeway '62 Editors The Boston Globe