Word: greeds
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...purification regime involved inordinate attention to the bowel movements of himself and those around him, and he liked testing his powers of self-denial by sleeping naked with young women. Nevertheless, he became not just a political force but a spiritual guide for those repelled by the hate and greed that polluted this century. "Generations to come," said Albert Einstein, "will scarce believe that such a one as this ever in flesh and blood walked upon this earth...
Director Oliver Stone, who wrote Any Given Sunday's screenplay with John Logan, may be momentarily in a nonpolitical mood, but that does not mean he has given up his preoccupations with paranoia, greed and the brutality of American life. He sees his warriors as innocent animals, the purity of their violent athletic endeavors under constant threat of corruption by people trying to make a buck off their pain. Or, in the case of a particularly noxious sports reporter (John C. McGinley), a know-nothing who thinks he knows it all, just trying to make a name for himself...
Johnson fought because he didn't have a financial choice, and the media transformed him into a martyr, a victim of boxing's brutality and all-encompassing greed...
...reason that led to Hitler's Romantic philosophy of "blood and fatherland." It's not reason that feeds myriad contending nationalisms. It's not reason that justifies the visceral greed of the world's exploiters. It's not reason that leads a people to idolize and deify dictators...
BEEF: WTO = corporate greed STUNTS: Grads of Ruckus "camps" scaled and banner'd Old Navy, paraded as corporate Grim Reapers