Word: reckless
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...sent to England. To make this scenario convincing, though, Cain must stiflesome of the play's most exquisite and poisonous scenes--the ones in which Hamlet, supposedly mad, repudiates Ophelia and insults her. Cain relocates the first crucial Hamlet-Ophelia scene to the middle of the night, reckless of chronology--putting both players in nightclothes, reducing the acerbic dialogue to lovers' quips, and smothering unambiguous lines, such as "I loved you not," in amorous play and Drabek's long hair. Another scene, set during the play-within-a-play, is intentionally drowned out in the players' general clamor...
...years produced a musical foundation on which Jagger and Richards built the many styles they explored and eventually mastered later on. It is, for instance, the conscious distance of the bluesman from his subject that gives Stones songs their biting irony. And at the same time, it is the reckless abandon of a Chicago blues jam that separates the Stones from those who would polish rock and roll into a smooth, blunt weapon. The band members never saw themselves as a part of a British Invasion--not musically, at least. They wanted that "really good funky American sound," from...
...interruption of the oxygen flow to Lacy's brain due to pressure applied to his chest and to a nerve in his neck. Their ruling last week was the most severe one allowed. It recommended that the three men who arrested Lacy be prosecuted for "homicide by reckless conduct," and that one of them, plus two officers who were in the paddy wagon, be tried for "misconduct in public office and failure to aid a prisoner in their custody...
Fueled by Carrillo's hat trick and one of Landry's goals, the Crimson chalked up a 4-0 halftime lead. Despite the margin, coach Bob Scalise lectured his players for their reckless kick-and-run attack and told them to switch to a more careful ball-control offense...
...President, why did the story not rate full investigative reporting and Page One headlines? "It would rival Watergate: the President ... violating the laws and the Constitution," claimed Powell. And if Post editors did not believe the bugging had taken place, Adamson noted, printing the rumor could constitute the "reckless disregard" for truth that a public figure must prove to win a libel case...