Word: reckless
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Franklin. In current movie terms, and when the incendiary issue of AIDS is raised, the towns couldn't be further apart. The hit film Philadelphia treats its subject gingerly, making its hero a saint and a near monogamist. Cyril Collard's French film Savage Nights is defiantly incorrect, even reckless, in its political agenda. Its hero is a fellow who is HIV positive but continues to have unprotected sex. C'est la vie. C'est la mort. No big difference...
...students burned is now suing the local chapter and national organization of Sigma Alpha Epsilon and Vanderbilt for negligence and reckless endangerment...
There is a war raging in the streets of Cambridge, a constant battle between pedestrians and cars. Aggressive street-crossers dart in front of on-rushing traffic, reckless drivers show no mercy. At first glance, it seems that the care, fast and lithe, have a clear advantage over the pedestrians. Careful observation, however, reveals that pedestrians have one highly effective weapon at their disposal--the crosswalk button...
...historians mine its lessons, the Northridge earthquake may be recalled as a natural and bureaucratic disaster that tested the city's spirit, threatened hopes of economic recovery and jolted some of its scarred population into packing up and leaving. Or it may turn out that Californians, known for their reckless hopes and short memories, will find blessings in the rubble -- like the bearded man in the mackinaw and shorts who stood, just an hour after the quake, at the intersection of Reseda and Sherman Way, only a mile from its center, and directed traffic with a torchlight...
...like princess with a potentially explosive diary, a royal aide hiding a homosexual affair and assorted political tricksters, both dirty and deadly. Like its predecessor, To Play the King is a wonderfully savvy, supremely cynical picture of real-world politics that makes American efforts in the same vein (JFK: Reckless Youth) look like Saturday-morning cartoons. Michael Kitchen, as the King, is starchy yet appealingly human; in its fictional way, To Play the King does more to demystify the British monarchy than any Daily Mail photos of Princess Di in the exercise gym. The face-to-face confrontations between King...