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...matter. There is personality aplenty in Woo's editing and camera style. ! Here, you feel, is a moviemaker, a popular artist with an infectious joy in his craft. What Raimi calls Woo's "supercharged adrenaline" -- the reckless intelligence he applies to solving the most familiar action scenes -- is evident in each precise, superpotent frame. He could be a cleaner, leaner Sam Peckinpah, or Sergio Leone: the next generation. And in his best work, Woo is a critic and elegist of movie manhood. His Vietnam film, the amazing A Bullet in the Head, is an atrocity picture with a conscience...
...nature of youth to reject and rebel. "We have to hate our immediate predecessors to get free of their authority," D.H. Lawrence once said. Many people in their 20s believe baby boomers have treated the economy, the environment and even the institution of marriage the way a reckless driver treats a rental car. The Third Millennium may fail, but it's a signal that another generation -- angered by the deficit and bitter over retirees who got theirs while the getting was good -- is ready to take the wheel. Boomers may be in for a bumpy ride...
While these ads are gaining minor press coverage, they aren't prompting floods of complaint calls to the members accused of raising taxes with reckless abandon. Maybe that's because the ads' creators--who spice their copy with the sounds of cash registers and chomping dinosaurs, the strains of a take-off from the "Jaws" theme--have chose the wrong genre. Attack ads don't turn heads because they're more of the same...
...acknowledging Hispanic racial anger, Twilight wrongly implies that rioting and looting were committed almost entirely by blacks. The play depicts a "social explosion" by the law-abiding; in fact, many criminals saw an opportunity and took it. There are sympathetic white characters, but everyone in authority emerges as a reckless boob -- perhaps because Smith enacts with dignity only those she admires. Still, Twilight is dazzling and depressing, rich in details that subtly illuminate the problem of race. Rodney King's angry aunt, recalling happier times, refers to one of her nephew's companions as "that Mexican." His ethnicity reveals nothing...
Woods compares Harvard to the Soviet Union under Khrushchev, "where if you hold certain views you're wrong, out of the bounds of debate." Woods adds that the "reckless name-calling" of liberals, employing epithets like "fascist" and "racist", greatly damages political discussion...