Word: moralize
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...only things missing in the year were nobility, honor, beauty, moral action and a sense of how to live in the world. But even in America one can't have everything...
...million job at his old firm. Goldman Sachs is attempting to stave off poaching by creating a new rung on the corporate ladder: junior partners, who will share some of the riches traditionally reserved for full partners. The company named 38 new partner-managing directors to the post. Moral: on Wall Street as in sports, you can keep your stars only by paying at least as much as they might get to jump to a rival team...
...year's end in a Kenneth Branagh movie that resurrected the melancholy, not-quite-corny figure yet again and plunked him in the middle of the aging New World. Here was the eternal young man, immensely gifted and born to high expectations, who had an overwhelming moral problem and either did not know what to do or did and could not do it. His inaction would never have been as poignant had he not been encumbered with the wild idea that a person should do whatever is nobler in the mind...
That was Mastroianni: the postheroic hero, defining the European male in all his charm, complexity, failure. Husband and lover, actor and movie star, deft comedian and suavest delineator of atomic-age anomie--there was a Marcello for every sexual taste, every moral mood. And he loved being those people; that's why he kept at it for a half-century, in more than 120 pictures. "When I make films," he said in 1987, "I am absolutely happy. And when the film is finished, I am looking for another film. Otherwise my life is a little more bored...
...talent to arouse. While he was exciting his loyal readers with outhouse humor and photos of splay-legged models, Hustler publisher Larry Flynt incited the guardians of public pudency. City D.A.s, state attorneys general, Moral Majority leader Jerry Falwell--all were so vexed by Flynt's verbal and pictorial provocations, they just had to sue him. One offended reader took a few rifle shots at the Great Satan of Columbus, Ohio, forever paralyzing some of Flynt's favorite body parts. The bumptious pornographer made friends with Jimmy Carter's evangelist sister, went nuts on painkillers and won a crucial First...