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Executives of the nation's largest steel producer agreed. They denounced the Mobil move as "a very reckless action aimed solely at coercing U.S. Steel to abandon its acquisition of Marathon." Reckless or not, Mobil revealed that it already owns 450,000 shares of U.S. Steel. And at the current stock price of $31% a share, the one-quarter ownership of the steelmaker would cost Mobil only about $700 million...
...posturing. Judson, Purlie's feisty brother-in-law, retains influence over Ol' Cap'n by posing as the stereotypical obsequious cotton-picker. Brown swaggers and staggers through the play's increasingly disjointed action with true comic aplomb, bawling "There's More Than One Way of Skinnin' a Cat" with reckless disregard for his tone-deafness, and applying his sense of dramatic timing to the moments that his cohorts largely let slip...
Jack Reed! Trotsky called him "observer and participant, chronicler and poet of the insurrection," and Lenin urged that Ten Days That Shook the World, Reed's report of the Russian Revolution, be "published in millions of copies and translated into all languages." Max Eastman said, "He had a reckless equilibrium in walking life's tightropes"; Walter Lippmann called him "one of the intractables," possessed with "an inordinate desire to be arrested." Max Lerner praised his "Faustian thirst for life"; Upton Sinclair dismissed him as a "playboy of the social revolution." Journalist and playwright, Harvard cheerleader and Moscow radical...
...sent to England. To make this scenario convincing, though, Cain must stiflesome of the play's most exquisite and poisonous scenes--the ones in which Hamlet, supposedly mad, repudiates Ophelia and insults her. Cain relocates the first crucial Hamlet-Ophelia scene to the middle of the night, reckless of chronology--putting both players in nightclothes, reducing the acerbic dialogue to lovers' quips, and smothering unambiguous lines, such as "I loved you not," in amorous play and Drabek's long hair. Another scene, set during the play-within-a-play, is intentionally drowned out in the players' general clamor...
...years produced a musical foundation on which Jagger and Richards built the many styles they explored and eventually mastered later on. It is, for instance, the conscious distance of the bluesman from his subject that gives Stones songs their biting irony. And at the same time, it is the reckless abandon of a Chicago blues jam that separates the Stones from those who would polish rock and roll into a smooth, blunt weapon. The band members never saw themselves as a part of a British Invasion--not musically, at least. They wanted that "really good funky American sound," from...