Word: morale
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...unearned by good works and suffering. It is, at best, a capricious cosmic joke and therefore nothing to get puffed up about. "I've become the kind of woman I've always hated," Robin says wonderingly at the end of her journey, "but I'm happier." There's a moral buried inside that irony. Or maybe it's the nasty core truth of our times. Whatever it is, Celebrity is the first fully serious (and seriously funny) movie about the issue that touches, and ultimately subsumes, everything we feel about fame and the discontents it breeds...
Does this cyber-tale contain a moral about anything other than my possible hang-ups about women? I'm not sure...so let me relate another story...
David M. Nicoll '02, a student in Moral Reasoning 28: "Ethics and International Relations," said although those in the class have a wide range of experience, many had already been exposed to the subject matter...
...rich" scam in which Heinrich Grigoris (Greg Tucci) boosts the sales of his alarms by staging robberies in the neighborhoods of potential clients. The twist in Grigoris' scheme is Tommy, the new salesman played with adorable, bumbling style by David Arquette. A natural at the hook, the Tommy's moral sensibilities are deeply troubled by Grigoris' less-than-honest sales strategy, which he markets to Tommy under the "rob the rich to feed the poor" label. While Grigoris feeds scruple-free off of the paranoid West Los Angeles psyche, Tommy complicates the plot until even Robin Hood risks entrapment...
...plot that takes over in the second half. Whatever credibility the script had up to that point is undermined by the oddity of the shift, making the movie a Quentin Tarantino imitation gone awry; the macabre violence and odd moralistic overtones undercut Grigoris' Robin Hood resonance. After a dramatic moral battle in which Tommy and Griorgis are at each other's throats in a good 10 minutes of suspense, the moment of moralizing in cut in favor of Kentucky Fried Chicken, where they end up discussing murder over a 12-piece chicken bucket...