Word: decays
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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What begins looking like one more film fetishizing violence ends with a palpable, some will say trite, proclamation of self-importance. It is the realization that there is nothing Western culture can do to save the Maori from decadence and decay that they could not do better themselves. By first flinging bits of raw, unfiltered indictments of urban life at its audience, "Warriors" depresses the spirit in order to redeem it with a glimmer of hope in the end. While violence serves a dual purpose, to caress the fetish as well as to sicken the heart, it is the latter...
...Savage's article is not about film, it's about the decay of our morals as a society, a decay which every mouth with a microphone south of Howard Stern so "astutely" recognizes. If moral bankruptcy is so widespread, then why is everyone so concerned about the state of our morals...
...director of the Consumer Federation of America, argues that there are no panaceas for national concerns about the gap between the information haves and have-nots. Nor, he believes, will eventual computer literacy and Net access do much to end the blight of poverty, illegitimacy, rural isolation and urban decay. ``There's always going to be an unequal distribution of income,'' Cooper says. That's probably true, but at the very least, the new technology should unleash all its considerable energies toward the goal of preventing those problems from getting any worse...
...scene is an unspecified English city, far gone in decay, at some point in what may be the 21st century. The city's inhabitants are a grotesque stew of humans; robots; human-robot-animal crosses; living protoplasmic blobs whose flesh, capable of regeneration, has the effect of drugs when sliced off and eaten; and deadly beings that seem to be sentient holograms...
...lower, interest rates were lower, the deficit and national debt were small fractions of what we have today and the rate of economic growth was higher. Is it mere coincidence that we are spending 10 times as much money and that everything is worse? And does the moral decay in America have anything to do with the massive federal handout programs...