Word: recklessness
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Colson's warnings echo a concern that religious conservatives would be reckless to ignore. "Americans are suspicious now of linking 'thus saith the Lord' with political specifics," says Richard Mouw of California's Fuller Theological Seminary. Evangelical Theologian Henry counsels, "You shouldn't say that the Bible requires every legislative position you take. Christians should use reasons that the secular community uses, such as appealing to the greater good for the greater number." Even Falwell agrees that change is nigh. He has always enjoyed having the last word, and once more he has it: "Never again will there...
...Naval Attraction." In the summer-fall hit No Way Out, an officer in U.S. naval intelligence (Kevin Costner) has a dangerous love affair with the Washington mistress (Sean Young) of the Secretary of Defense (Gene Hackman). It begins as hot reckless sex in the back seat of a limo and climaxes in death and betrayal. No Way Out keeps escalating past passion into mortal power struggles, in which the guilty are forever eliminating the slightly less guilty. But the film rescores, in melodrama's high pitch, the lament of any bright woman with a healthy carnal appetite...
Wolfe's heroes are men who can be reckless in their commitments to professionalism, another name for courage. He has admired these types before, most fully in his portrait of Test Pilot Chuck Yeager in The Right Stuff. In The Bonfire of the Vanities, the type is represented by a feisty old Jewish judge, an Irish criminal lawyer and an Irish investigator for the D.A.'s office. Wolfe pays conditional tribute to what he identifies as Celtic machismo, a refusal to back off from confrontations, and passes on the street theory that regardless of race or background, all members...
...When reckless college students tied chickens to goalposts...
...extremely emotional. People are dumping stocks with reckless abandon. As trite as it may sound, the market is going down because it's going down...