Word: reckless
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...course, he could have looked more closely into history before he leaped. In fact, Agee's suicidal forthrightness places him squarely in a most distinguished company of reckless clarifiers, all of whom at one crucial, wretched moment of their lives were possessed by the demonic idea that if they would only explain themselves fully in the midst of seeming scandal or time of harassment-let it all hang out, lay their cards on the table, spare no detail, be up front, come clean-and so forth -then the grateful, enlightened public would murmur "I see," and all would...
...perhaps the most characteristic American element in all this, and the most moving as well, is that astonished moment when the reckless clarifier carefully looks over his audience (or courtroom or stationery or press conference) anc envisions being born again. O hopeful pioneer. All he has to do is say a few words and the world will be new. He feels better already. -By Roger Rosenblatt
...Nonetheless, 40% of the nation's wetlands have been destroyed by public and private development. Yet this attrition is slowing: as the natural benefits of wetlands become better understood, laws are being passed to protect them. Even the dam-building Corps of Engineers, which environmentalists blame for much reckless destruction of wetlands, now concedes that in some instances swamps control floods better than...
Jerry Hopkins and Daniel Sugerman have a fertile subject in Morrison, a reckless and unreconstructed mythomaniac who made the Doors into a band better known for their own notoriety than their reheated acid rock. Before he bloated his body with booze and fried his brain with various combinations of pharmacological excess, Morrison, the son of a rear admiral, was as stunning as a model. He was also the self-appointed model for the self-destructive rock idol...
...tape, marketed by TIME-LIFE Video, costs $39.95 retail. For anyone with the ante, and a taste for some high-spirited, high-stepping rock, One for the Road is one of the more notable music events of the year. It is a tidy audiovisual chronicle of fierce, reckless endurance, a gone-to-hell charm that is distinctively, and triumphantly, Kinky. -By Jay Cocks