Word: moralize
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Bright Lights, Big City with a happy ending, and with booze instead of dope as the recreational drug of choice. Bryan Brown, who plays Cruise's misanthropic mentor, does eventually go the way of all flash: he can cope with everything but success. But if there is a moral here, it is lost in the film's desperate dash to ingratiate. As Cruise says at Cocktail's climax, "I tried to sell out to you, but I couldn't close the deal." He should know you can't sell star quality, but you can sell it out. Charm...
...thunk it? A horror movie with brains and guts. That is, as it happens, the theme of George A. Romero's Monkey Shines: a battle of intellect vs. instinct, the moral vs. the feral, Allan man vs. Ella monkey. Ella learns to know Allan, through a kind of transspecies ESP, and to love him, with a frightening intensity. He is seized with visions, from Ella's point of view, of the creature's nocturnal rambles as she acts out his jealousy and frustration in the most violent form; and Romero films the images as if through a late-night monkey...
...Wexford and prissy Mike Burden. Having indulged her own preference to dazzling effect in her past seven volumes -- two published under her alternate byline, Barbara Vine -- Rendell now indulges readers in The Veiled One (Pantheon; 278 pages; $17.95). If the underlying appeal of most mysteries is the promise of moral order, that may explain why fans have such a hard time with Rendell's psychological novels, which are eerily nonjudgmental in the face of true dementia, and why they are so comforted by Wexford's moral outrage and Burden's unwavering duty. Both characters are in fine form in this...
Biblical Scoreboard wants Christian men and women to "represent God in the political arena." "As the prophets of old confronted the kings with God's standards, we must take a stand for God through writing letters, voting, and informing others when the government makes decisions on moral issues," Biblical Scoreboard says...
MIDWAY through the publication, Biblical Scoreboard says its survey is "not intended, nor implied, to be a statistical judgment of a person's personal moral behavior or relationship with God." Only an indicator, it seems, of how the candidates will "impact families, children, and national" morality...