Word: recklessness
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...have the adventures of John Z. De Lorean attracted so much notice? Recklessness? Yes, recklessness is always fascinating, especially when the reckless driver is notorious for being cocksure of himself. Desperation? Certainly. A fall from high place? That too. All the more gratifying when such a fall is self-generated and occurs to a hot-shot of American business who thinks he can get away with murder...
...Sahara to the Amazon, where holy misfits are given the chance to realize or cheat their destinies. The risks this German film maker takes - with his subject matter, with his and his company's safety, with an audience's willingness to accede to his demons - make a reckless ad venturer like Francis Coppola seem stodgy by comparison. For Heart of Glass Herzog hypnotized his actors, and on the receptive viewer his films have a similar effect: their spectral landscapes, brain-fevered protagonists and eruptions of lyricism can weave a mesmerizing spell. In achievement and originality his movies stand...
Holmes is being charged only with reckless driving. Police said the truck was on the wrong side of the two-lane highway, but are still uncertain whether the truck overturned onto the Volkswagen or the ear ran into the truck...
WHAT MAKES the suicide book dispute so different from ordinary squabbles over the press is the nature of what's being so widely disseminated. Not reckless or untrue charges, not the misguided political protest to overthrow a ruling regime, but simple how-to information. Over the years, participants in the freedom-of-the-press debate have followed the principle that, if a piece of information is accurate, it shouldn't be withheld...
...swami's drag, and the Mighty Carson Art Players are Fred Allen's Mighty Allen Art Players with unreliable props. Carson's borrowings are leavened with respect and an originality that will run a thematic risk-"take left turns," as McCormick says-without becoming reckless. "He had an unfailing instinct for what would resonate, of what would work for him," says Brickman, who recalls with admiration how Carson withstood one writer who tried to get him to revamp the traditional Washington's Birthday skit by impersonating a cherry tree...