Word: recklessness
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...Houston Oilers, the Oakland Raiders and the Los Angeles Rams, will be a guest star this fall as Spartacus on Voyagers!, NBC's Sunday-night entry in its onetime Walt Disney time slot. In his previous off-the-field forays, Pastorini has racked up headlines for reckless driving, posing seminude for Playgirl magazine, having a couple of run-ins with...
...least in the case brought by the Mobil president. Federal Judge Oliver Gasch ruled that the elder Tavoulareas was a "public figure." Thus, under the prevailing Supreme Court standard, he had to prove that the Post had printed its story "with knowledge that it was false, or with reckless disregard of whether it was false or not." But the jury apparently concluded that however non-reckless the internal review procedures may have been, the Post's aggressive, go-get-'em style of newspaper journalism was itself reckless. That conclusion may not survive Judge Gasch's expected review...
Making a movie out of a novel in which there is a strong emotional stake is never easy, and, indeed, it requires almost reckless courage to undertake the task. Unfortunately for Director George Roy Hill and Writer Steve Tesich, their recklessness seems to have deserted them once the deals were made and they set to work. They have not tampered greatly with Irving's plot or his people. What is missing from the movie is any attempt to discover a cinematic language that compares with the language of the novel. Where the book jumped, the movie plods; where...
...originality, Lithgow scoops him. In a story about families overly concerned with their own self-preservation, it is Roberta--the social pariah--who is the most consistent source of spirit when danger arises. Roberta also plays "Sir Scum"; she hurdles shrubbery with Garp in a comic pursuit of reckless drivers, outpacing and protecting her friend. In the eerie feminist funeral for Garp's slain mother, where the protagonist must attend in drag, Roberta runs interference for Garp when he is unmasked. Roberta's is the first shoulder upon which everyone cries...
...wealth of fine writing that have come from this woman's decade?Anne Tyler and Gail Godwin, Maxine Hong Kingston and Joyce Eliason, Ann Beattie and Elizabeth Hardwick and, yes, Joan Didion?have created a consciousness that is both more aware and a little restless, a little reckless, even, about mistaking gains for guarantees. Critic Janet Maslin summed up the plot of a movie this way: "[The heroine] confronts her new situation. She redefines her relationship with her children...