Word: reckless
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...Director James Foley (Reckless) wants to iconize the whole pathetic crowd with his wide-screen technique. The telephoto lens sets small-town streets ashiver; dramatic lighting illuminates a face from no earthly source. The two Brads share an idyllic toke of "wacky tobaccy," gazing out at the rolling Appalachian farmland. Brad Sr. sits at the center of a Last Supper tableau of thieves, looking like Jesus looking for Judas. Every overwrought gesture, every pregnant banality, every brutal killing is elongated to impress upon us the moment's importance and sick beauty. This fetishized attention to detail produces some gorgeous picturemaking...
...gets right down to the nitty gritty of laying blame and answering the elusive question "why?," the report comes as the authoritative, official "Oh my God!"--the stamped-in-ink echo of last year's uproar. The report gets stuck in a set of stock condemnations--hasty, unreasonable, reckless--that don't tell us anything...
...what seems to be practical is not always politically feasible in Washington, especially during an election year. The rhetoric used by both sides so far has served only to polarize the debate and leave a confused public to believe that the choice is between reckless belligerency and naive isolationism. For Congress and the Administration alike, the challenge in the weeks ahead will be to shape a policy that balances diplomacy and force, and then, just as important, to stick...
Mayor Wilson Goode's handpicked commission was stunningly impartial. "The plan to bomb the Move house was reckless, ill conceived and hastily approved," the panel concluded last week in its report on the May 1985 siege of a radical group in West Philadelphia. The mayor and his top aides were "grossly negligent" in pursuing the confrontation, the report stated. The bomb, dropped by police helicopter on a fortified row house, led to a fire that destroyed 61 homes and killed six Move members and five of their children. The children's deaths, the panel said, "appear to be unjustified homicides...
...impossible to believe that Crocker, the rest of the State Department, the CIA and the more hawkish members of Congress have been so utterly deceived by Savimbi. However, there is a real reason for the ostensibly plausible yet strategically reckless rationalization for propping up the new interventionist cause celebre: defense of South African hegemony over mineralrich Namibia...