Word: recklessness
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...curiosity, he follows where the unexpected turns in his stories take him. "You get tired of being afraid of embarrassing yourself," he says. "And so rather than draw back and going in a direction you're sure of, I think as a person gets older, you get reckless. I think you're supposed to get reckless...
...power is naturally diminished since he cannot run again. His trusted staff has dispersed, and even those still on the job are positioning themselves for that time in the next three years when they will move off into other work. Sometimes in these last days they have been reckless and sloppy...
...basic parental fear: losing one's child to drugs or suicide or a religious cult or ordinary adolescent independence. But Boorman, a 52-year-old wild child who combines lush visual sophistication with the oneiric storytelling sense of a Hyde Park ranter, will always opt for youth's reckless hurtle into the unknown. In his forest, the prime evil is civilized man, and "back to nature" is a great leap forward. So the father in this dizzy, rapturous adventure picture must allow Tomme to do his own thing; indeed, he must destroy the part of civilization he has erected...
...Mexican border towns. Upstart groups like the Zetas have emerged largely as a result of the Mexican government's recent crackdown on the big cartels that have long monopolized the country's $25 billion-a-year drug trade. Experts call the phenomenon "atomization": as the large Mafias decompose, more reckless "microcartels" spin off or move in. In their heyday in the 1980s and '90s, Mexico's biggest kingpins ran networks that employed thousands of people; now gangs like the Zetas, whose members number at most in the low hundreds, are waging vicious battles against one another--and against remnants...
...Such successes have made Chao fairly fearless. Last fall, during a staff retreat in Phoenix, Arizona, he led three lawyers from China on a three-hour mountain-biking trip in the blistering sun along rattlesnake-infested rocky roads. "What the heck," he told them. "After China, this is nothing." Reckless attitude? Chao would probably call it risk arbitrage...