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...that list, "having an uncanny sense of timing." While panicky investors in lower Manhattan spent Monday jettisoning their stocks like sandbags in a sinking hot-air balloon, the owner of the New York Yankees in the South Bronx reshuffled his management with characteristically reckless impatience...
...numbers prove that Manhattan's reckless-bike-riding problem is not trivial. Even so, the ire stirred by the bikers is striking. Some argue (not too convincingly) that the antipathy toward messengers, who are mostly black, is racially motivated. But that does not explain the shouts of anger directed at white speed demons by startled white pedestrians...
...course, television shows some laughably awful films itself, and Amazon Women offers three of them. One is a 1930s government scare film, a la Reefer Madness, called "Reckless Youth," in which "Mary Brown" (Carrie Fisher) is a corrupted innocent who contracts "a SOCIAL DISEASE!" Another is "Son of the Invisible Man," in which the original's son (Ed Begley Jr.) walks around naked in the mistaken belief that he, too, is invisible...
...busy with extracurricular activities and classes that I missed out on some of youth's simple pleasures--lawbreaking and endangering life and limb. I feared lighters, loaded guns, and Confederate flags, all best sellers at Southern fireworks outlets. When I got to college I couldn't even afford the reckless abandon of the rich kid--who discovers his parent's credit ceiling and breaks it buying drugs...
...used to know a young girl named Hess Worsham who lived across the street at home. I heard on the national news that Hess one of the sorority sisters killed by a reckless driver during a walk-a-thon for the University of Mississippi. And I simply couldn't remember...