Word: recklessness
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...Kremlin's new master offered no bold foreign policy initiatives. He restated his nation's commitment to the principle of "peaceful coexistence" and railed against the "reckless, adventurist actions of imperialism's aggressive forces." The Soviet Union, he said, did not seek military superiority, but would not allow others to upset the strategic balance. In a passage that must have pleased the military establishment, he promised to "see to it that our country's defense capacity be strengthened, that we should have enough means to cool the hot heads of militant adventurists...
Accidents can happen, of course; but when they happen to pop superstars, people take notice. Jackson's mishap has further roiled long-simmering concerns in Hollywood over safety on the set. Many industry observers are questioning whether TV and movie directors have become reckless in their pursuit of ever more dazzling special effects...
THINGS HAPPEN in movies that just don't happen in what we call real life. Some films afford their audiences a fantastic escape from daily existence, others, by pretending to be plausible, simply embarrass James Foley's Reckless is the embarrassing sort. Its portrayal of two teenagers trying to escape an American mill town--a virtual rewrite of John Sayles's 1982 Baby. It's You--is annoying rather than inspiring...
...Aren't there other elements in this business of your being perceived as reckless overseas? We do have troops in Lebanon, and you have been much tougher than your immediate predecessor, at least in foreign affairs...
...squad like a talisman and an albatross. The new team has traded in the pre-Olympic obscurity of their gold-medal predecessors for celebrity with an uneasy edge-avid media attention, sold-out exhibition games and an offer to pose en masse for Vogue-all in the reckless anticipation that miracles can strike twice. It puts unholy pressure on the young skaters, some of whom had hardly begun shaving four years ago, when Jim Craig, Mark Johnson and the rest were working their legerdemain at Lake Placid. But if any coach can reproduce a mir acle, Vairo...