Word: recklessness
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...shysters, cops and crooks-and as the agent of their anxiety-Matty might seem one more example of moviemaker misogyny hiding behind the imperatives of the thriller genre. She surely is a metaphor for the seductive, destructive power of ambition. But she is also the one figure of reckless imagination. Smoothly and confidently, she guides the taut mechanism of the movie's plot. She creates between herself and Ned a sexual attraction that erases the past and suggests terrible new options. And she knows, as a young woman whose Midwestern memories are as sordid as her Palm Beach present...
...radio serializations. Hollywood kept recycling his material; the 1941 version of The Maltese Falcon, with Humphrey Bogart and Sidney Greenstreet, was the third film based on that book in ten years. Hammett had always shown a streak of to-hell-with-it independence, and success made him increasingly reckless. He partied and drank too much, offended studio heads and publishers with his disregard for deadlines. He ran up huge bills that he declined...
...punk audience, Ely remembers, "threw shirts, hot dogs, bottles and panties at us. We threw back a crate of ice, and they loved it." The recorded result of the London leg of this tour, Live Shots, was never released in the U.S., although the album's reckless drive and scalding lyricism could have put a few badly needed cracks into the country Establishment...
Convinced that the Enquirer had acted with reckless disregard for the truth, the jury awarded Burnett $300,000 in general damages and $1.3 million-almost as much as the privately owned tabloid says it earned in 1980-in punitive damages (her legal fees were more than $200,000). William Masterson, the Enquirer's lawyer, said the decision would be appealed...
...short drive from Hollywood, Cora knows the only spotlight she is likely to appear in is the concupiscent glare from men across the counter. Frank knows he's several criminal convictions past a prime he never had. But his rutting passion for Cora offers them both the reckless hope of transcendence...