Word: moral
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Ramon Miguel "Mike" Vargas, a Mexican narcotics investigator embroiled in a shady murder investigation just on the other side of the border. Heading the investigation is Captain Hank Quinlan, played by a padded and bloated Welles. When Quinlan's abuse of power proves too great an affront to Vargas' moral sensibilities, he soon involves both himself and his newlywed American wife, played by a feisty Janet Leigh, in the cutthroat bordertown brawl between good and evil. Billed as "The strangest vengeance ever planned!" Touch of Evil also provides some fairly strange casting (yes, even beyond the choice of Heston...
Even if Antz tends to sag in the middle,and is debased by a "moral" so pastiched that itmust be explicitly stated, it is entertaining tosee what Woody Allen and Sylvester Stallone looklike with six legs and shiny exoskeletons...
...myself before you in this letter, talk of how repentant I meant to be during those few hours of service, enumerate my transgressions and show you that I do not deserve "the serve decree". But I figure that if I could convince Harvey C. Mansfield '53 to change my Moral Reasoning grade from a C+ to an A-, certainly I can get you to look at this a little differently...
...usually told, this story is a classic fable. A quick tale of ingenuity, it finishes with a convenient and easily-packaged moral lesson: In Harvard, as in life, the squeaky wheel gets the grease. You have got to think outside the box, play the angles and beat the system...
...going to live in this world, one filled with other people who have every moral right that you do, on some level you have to accept events as they happen, even when these events are the result of some decision that appears manifestly silly. If that decision was reached in the proper way, that fact in itself counts for a lot more than whether you agree with the decision...