Word: recklessness
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This is Spoon River Anthology meets Saturday Night Live, an anachronistic blend of reckless humor and ironic pathos that goes down easiest when it's not taking itself too seriously. Unfortunately, they're only half-kidding when they promise to "warm the cockles of your heart." Following a fast-paced first act, the second half becomes weighed down in soul-searching soliloquies, a last try at serious reflection that comes too late in the show. Otherwise Greater Tuna's frank attitude that life is dull only if you think about it serves up raucous relief from postmodern boredom...
ASIDE FROM the patent bigotry of his remarks, Cameron demonstrated a reckless disregard for the medical realities of the disease. Research indicates that AIDS can only be transmitted by sexual contact, use of contaminated hypodermic needles, and transfusions of blood containing the virus. Moreover, not everyone who carries the AIDS virus develops symptoms...
...spacious feel, Rebel never gave Dean enough room to strut his stuff. As a frinstance, he never gets a chance to play the role he most convincingly embodied--that of the reckless actor killing himself in a car accident...
...Fred Schepisi, traces the degeneration of Susan Traherne (Streep) from her work with the French Resistance in 1943 to her desertion of her husband almost 20 years later. Susan--part Joan of Archetype, part loony from Loonyville--is a bitter romantic who never got over her teenage crush on reckless idealism. During the war there was excitement to spare in her view of the British as parachuting | angels of mercy. Her one great moment of idealistic passion--in a tatty French hotel room with an exhausted soldier-hero--is the memory that sustains and destroys her life. Progressive change seemed...
Still, despite all her obvious flaws, he has to admit that Muriel has a certain flair. In one of her spirited moments, she belts out a reckless rendition of "War Is Hell On the Homefront, Too." Muriel, he realizes, is a fighter. Her pathetic ignorance wages war on the conventional proprieties that have long ossified the rest of the Learys. Macon's decision to give up middle-class respectability for its underside of secondhand thrift shops and carry-out pizza dinners turns out, ironically, to be less of an escape than an adventure in responsibility. He discovers himself feeling...