Word: recklessness
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...mugging or two when they encounter New York waiters; many waiters, on the other hand, are the best anywhere. The taxis can be gritty and claustrophobic behind their plastic mugger shields; now and then they seem to be driven by surly crackpots exploring new frontiers in rudeness and reckless endangerment. New York cabbies also include some of the funniest, most charming characters around. (Advice to delegates: If possible, look for the oversize Checker cabs or the radio-dispatched fleet cabs with telephone numbers on their doors; radio cabs are more likely to be cleaned and air-conditioned, less likely...
...very much like a revue, laughs hung out on a thin line. It is a line that Brooks walks with zany skill, however. He is a tightrope artist who makes it from one side to the other with just a couple of false steps, and he has the inspired, reckless lunacy to turn a couple of handstands along the precarious route. All without a net, too. Jay Cocks
...Communists were as real as the Salem witches). And it was only after the 1954 elections that he was at last brought low and formally censured by the Senate. Thus it is that McCarthyism (a word coined by cartoonist Herblock) has become the dictionary term for ruthless and reckless mudslinging and demagogic suppression of criticism; and he will live on in our lexical language with such other extremists as the Marquis de Sade, William Lynch, Thomas Bowdler, Vidkun Quisling, and Anthony Comstock...
...infants who, during the past two years, died soon after being born at the clinic. His wife and 32-year-old son, who despite having no medical certification served as his assistants, were also booked for murder. The deaths, charged Deputy D.A. Dinko Bozanich, stemmed from "a wanton and reckless disregard for life...
...Reckless Waltzes. The evening does have some amusing nonsense and high spirits. The sets and costumes by Desmond Heeley are not only clever but look notably fresh. The music, ar ranged and conducted by John Lanch-berry, sounds like a serious ensemble rather than the pickup assortment that often accompanies dance. The Australians are a very handsome company. The girls are among the prettiest dancers around; the men are tall and athletic. John Meehan, who plays Count Danilo, the rich widow's reluctant lover, is positively coltish. He carries off the evening with blithe bravado, swinging Dame Margot around...