Word: reckless
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Instead he is trapped in time. He wakes up the next day to discover it is still Feb. 2. The same people he saw on Groundhog Day say the same things; the same unforeseen snowstorm blows into town; Punxsutawney is Brigadoon. Phil is angry, then reckless, then depressed, then suicidal. Yet he can't die, he can't escape. He can only change. So in the dozens of Groundhog Day replays, he puts his familiarity with the town to humane use: a child falls from a tree and, because Phil knows it will happen, he can catch...
...home to her husband Leroy (stalwart John Heard) and their seven kids. Patricia wants Leroy, a carpenter who is descended from Alexander Hamilton, to be more successful and less complacent. And she seeks release from the ghosts of her golden youth. But wry or wistful, she speaks with the reckless lucidity of someone liberated from drugs and intoxicated by the impending peril of real life. "Sooner or later you just have to stand up and say, 'I'm normal, I made it,' " she says. "But it's like standing on top of a stairs, and there's no stairs...
...with no adult supervision, though, it's a crime. David and Sharon Schoo of St. Charles, Illinois, found that out last week on returning from nine childless days in Mexico. The couple was arrested at O'Hare Airport and charged with felony child abandonment, cruelty to children and misdemeanor reckless endangerment for leaving alone daughters Nicole, 9, and Diana, 4. The girls were left with a refrigerator full of food and a note full of instructions -- but no information on how to contact their parents. The children were found when a fire alarm went off and Nicole called...
...Billie Holiday was no butterfly to be broken on such a greasy wheel. As this triumphant 10-CD collection demonstrates, she still had greatness in her. She was leading a reckless life when she laid down her great Columbia sides in the 1930s and early '40s, and by the time she got to Verve, the price she was paying for her excesses was becoming more damaging. You can hear the bills coming due. In a "Jazz at the Philharmonic" session from 1945, Holiday's debut at Carnegie Hall, she follows a sexy, freewheeling Body and Soul with a heart-riving...
...together they stretched the boundaries of dance. Tharp was one of many choreographers who were trying to harness their talents to the Russian's genius, and mostly these efforts flopped. But her Push Comes to Shove (1976) showed a different, up-to-the- minute Baryshnikov -- impish, racy and reckless -- and a new idiom for classical ballet...