Word: recklessness
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Diversity is a term bandied about our campus with the reckless abandon that literary scholars toss around "intertextuality" or "gender" as a verb. We chair committees, establish organizations and plan events with the expressed purpose of bringing about greater "diversity" in the student population or the faculty. Diversity in this sense translates into a greater percentage of minority, female or homosexual members in the Harvard community at large...
...play the other roommates give strong supporting performances. Moira Kelly is a friendly, energetic Courtney, one of the boys...yet very much a woman. And Patrick Dempsey, as Everett the WHRB deejay, is joyously lusty. Dempsey has played a debauched Harvard man before--namely, Jack Kennedy in the "Reckless Youth" miniseries. This reviewer can only hope Dempsey will play a debauched Harvard man again...
...gonna say that part of the problem was that the whole deal thing got very, very complicated. The way I justified it, or the way we justified it--for better or for worse--was this: He didn't a store it on floppy drive. Why? Because he was reckless...but maybe more importantly because he had a hard copy. He had a xerox. In other words, what were the chances of both things going wrong? Well, as it turns out, it was his own character flaw that made him essentially lose that thesis in the first place...
That is, if you want star outfielder Ron Gant with a broken leg due to reckless mountain biking. Anyway, his injury happened just after he signed a unguaranteed contract with Atlanta. So the Cost-conscious Braves (owned by Ted Turner) cut him from the roster...
...Lewis' was a melodramatic Dane -- an agitated youth who raced across his world of a stage as if late for a date with doom. It was a reckless, bravura turn that could sap any star's strength. In the middle of a performance toward the end of the run, Day-Lewis left the stage and did not return. The theater pages were full of rumors that he had seen his father as the ghost and was driven daft. "I have no bad feelings about my father, my father's ghost, the ghost of Hamlet, Hamlet, Shakespeare, Richard Eyre...