Word: moralizer
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Carl Graham Jr., to evict tenants from rent-controlled apartments in a six-family building he had recently bought, to make room for his own family and two of his sisters. Although Graham was present at the sale of the house, she denied giving her son anything more than moral support...
...reality is that [the Bush campaign] are sleazebags--they have a candidate with no moral center, who has allowed himself to be manipulated by people who don't care," says Goldman. "Dukakis' weakness is that he thinks education on the issues moves voters. In fact, Willie Horton [a Massachusetts convict who committed rape and murder while on furlough] moves voters...
...into sitcom. Bitter for Gavin, for the luminous Babs, for their bookworm nephew Donnie (Timothy Hutton) and their lumbering pal Lawrence (John Goodman). The story meanders through 25 years of the changing South -- civil rights, women's rights, the capricious kingdom of celebrity -- and ends in 1981, but its moral should catch in many a yuppie throat. The price of pursuing eternal youth is catching it, like a cold you can never shake. Especially for the eternally adolescent male. Games, after all, are what men play with themselves...
Dukakis should have known better than to try to win votes by downplaying his association with Blacks. His record is too clear: The moral imperative of opposing racism is too strong...
...given Israel more than $45 billion in aid. This year alone, Israel is receiving more than $3 billion, almost one-half of all U.S. foreign aid, at a rate of almost $8 million a day. Aid to Israel has always been supported under the assumption that it was a moral imperative: Israel needed our tax dollars to promote democracy and to defend itself from hostile neighbors...