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...prototypical punk moment. It was loud, adventurous, untutored and self- destructive. Something may have been kindled that night, but it took 18 months to work it into a flame. Now the Pogues burn reckless and bright, working weird wonders on old Irish airs, giving errant folk melodies a strong bracing of rock. The new Pogues album has the kind of title that makes a sucker out of anyone who doesn't know the band; Peace and Love is full of spunk and sass, unreconstructed punk attitude hiding a hard social conscience. Chits will no longer be tossed...
DEAD POETS SOCIETY. Robin Williams is a Mr. Chips with a mission: to inspire his '50s prep school students with reckless passion. Like director Peter Weir, Williams is dead serious this time, donating his celebrity to an imperfect but valuable adolescent drama...
Robin Williams is a Mr. Chips with a mission: to inspire his '50s prep school students with reckless passion. Like director Peter Weir, Williams is dead ) serious this time, donating his celebrity to an imperfect but valuable adolescent drama...
...recent years regulating where and by whom the motorized skis may be used. Many have set the minimum age for riders at 14, require use of a life jacket and forbid riding at night. In Florida, where eleven deaths have occurred since 1987, the state plans to outlaw such reckless maneuvers as weaving through powerboat traffic. Local authorities in Arizona and Oregon have restricted the use of personal watercraft to designated areas on certain lakes. New Hampshire has banned the craft entirely from all lakes and ponds of less than 75 acres, and last week restricted the craft, with some...
Eventually a legislator finds it easier to understand the plight of the constituent-friend who would be hurt by a bill cracking down on reckless savings and loan executives than the plight of a constituent he does not know -- Joe Sixpack faithfully depositing his weekly savings into a 5% passbook account. When friends of Wright and Coelho who were heading up failing S & Ls came under investigation for fraud, the Democratic leaders were not only willing to take their calls and visits but to stall legislation and a federal investigation that would have cracked down on these people...