Word: recklessness
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...politics, freely intertwines writings on each field in Double Trouble: some essays deal solely with Clinton, some just with music, often musical subjects totally unrelated to Elvis. Pieces on Dylan, Kurt Cobain, Kenneth Starr and Hillary are especially insightful, and are treated with uniformly graceful prose and pleasantly reckless extensions of metaphors. In Marcus's world, the political and the sensational are one, and so they deserve the same critics and the same vocabulary...
...rest of us, Americans had been patient, understanding that a close race may take time to sort out. But by last week the conduct had become so reckless that patience required some courage and faith; reasoned arguments about fairness were drowned out by angry mobs charging that Gore was "the Commander in Thief," a "chad molester," even as Democrats charged that Bush would burn down the White House before he'd let Gore live in it. The uniform code of conduct in a democracy--the assumption of good faith that allows politicians to quarrel one day and compromise the next...
HOME-ROASTED COFFEE INVENTOR: SWISSMAR In their reckless pursuit of the freshest cup of coffee, java jocks are worse than drug addicts. Alpenrost, the first home coffee roaster, could be the ultimate enabler on the coffee lover's road to destruction. Pour in green coffee beans (Swissmar supplies them), press a button and 25 minutes later you have fresh-roasted coffee beans. If that's too long to wait, check yourself into a clinic...
...certainly ate it up, roaring with anticipation as the familiar shuffling beat filtered from the speakers, but not so much that anyone could call Maas a one-remix wonder. If anything, they much preferred lesser-known but equally well-crafted Maas tracks, occasionally jumping up and down with the reckless abandon of seventh-graders at a school dance. That's not to say that Maas avoided well-known tracks-another crowd favorite was Fatboy Slim's new single "Star 69," universally recognized by its spoken nonsense-meets-gratuitous-obscenity loop...
...rest of us, Americans had been patient, understanding that a close race may take time to sort out. But by last week the conduct had become so reckless that patience required some courage and faith; reasoned arguments about fairness were drowned out by angry mobs charging that Gore was "the Commander in Thief," a "chad molester," even as Democrats charged that Bush would burn down the White House before he'd let Gore live in it. The uniform code of conduct in a democracy - the assumption of good faith that allows politicians to quarrel one day and compromise the next...