Word: moneyitis
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...actions dictated by the director just as much as anything else on screen. In this way, the film manipulates its characters, its plot, and its audience to teach a pseudo-sophisticated moral about how being true to one’s self is a greater pleasure than all the money, luxury, and girls that charm can buy. “The Good Guy” forgets that it’s hard for a film to preach integrity when its script has none...
...spouse falls increasingly ill due to a mold problem in their run-down home. In order to save his wife and their twins, Procidia must make a down payment for a new house in just a few days, but he doesn’t have nearly enough money. To meet his deadline, he turns to robbing drug dealers during busts, even going so far as to break into a dealer’s apartment after a bust gets canceled. Though this is the most compelling story in the film, Hawke’s performance is forgettable and uninspired, lacking...
...support the aims of these campaigns—convincing legislators who are setting state-wide budgets to allot more money for education. Diverging from past protests that included tactics such as storming classrooms and occupying academic buildings, the latest round of action in California instead involved groups of protestors storming highways, causing traffic to shut down. The smart shift in focus from targeting university administrators to directing frustration at budget-setting lawmakers will ideally bring about change as quickly as possible...
...help these women financially so that they can stop being prostitutes. In fact, many have simply ended up in jail. The usual response to these stories is to turn up one’s morally superior nose and say that "there must have been another way to find the money." But all that these women were trying to do, just like Senator Brown, was pay for school. They want to be productive members of society. Many of those trying to attend law school would probably love to run for public office some day. But if and when their past came...
...discussing conspiracy theories is a national pastime, there is no shortage of speculation about Navalny's motives. Some bloggers say he collects dirt on companies to demand payouts in exchange for keeping quiet. (He denies the accusation, saying the companies he targets are too powerful to bother with hush money.) Others claim he is secretly funded by powerful businessmen who want to make their competitors nervous. Gazprom even published a two-page article in a corporate publication attacking Navalny for his pursuit of criminal charges in a deal involving a Gazprom subsidiary, accusing him of "terrorizing" state-owned companies...