Word: decays
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Nonsense," says Daniel Moynihan, the New York Senator and a leading expert on social decay. "We really don't know what to do, and anyone who thinks that cutting benefits can affect sexual behavior doesn't know human nature...
Since accusing Hollywood of playing a role in accelerating the moral decay of the United States, Senate majority leader Bob Dole has come under heavy fire from the national media elite. He has been called a cultural ignoramus, a vote-hungry opportunist, a hypocrite and even a racist. The motives behind his critique have been called into serious question. According to his critics, Dole criticizes Hollywood not out of genuine concern over a serious societal problem, but in order to improve his chances of securing the Republican Party's presidential nomination...
...most common response to Dole's argument is to view the debased content of American entertainment as a symptom, rather than a cause, of the nation's moral decay. As Frank Rich wrote in a recent opinion piece for the New York Times, "I'm no fan of dr. Dre...but I disagree with Mr. Dole's theory that ugly words are the causes, rather than the effects, of American pathologies...
...attempts to understand and conquer her condition at Wrenwood, a "chemical-free zone" in New Mexico. Writer-director Todd Haynes, who made the importantly weird short film Superstar: The Karen Carpenter Story and Poison, a minimalist epic of sex and longing in the age of aids, again has decay and estrangement in mind. This scarily confident, beautifully acted study is gnomic and anomic, like a TV disease movie made in an alternate universe. And in Moore's pretty, aggrieved face, Haynes finds the ideal vessel for his concerns...
...Jennie is both Lucy, the walking dead with the fatal love bite, and Van Helsing, the fearless vampire killer. But well before Jennie embarks on her long night's journey into daze, Clark and screenwriter Harmony Korine have worked at numbing the viewer with scenes of anomic decay. It's not the rough huff of the sex play with girls who look to be on the green side of puberty, though these trysts pack their own sick wallop. It's the throwaway brutality (the kids beating up a black man in the park), the notion that the world is there...