Word: moralizers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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This has been a year of big stories. The death of Princess Diana tapped a wellspring of modern emotions and highlighted a change in the way we define news. The cloning of an adult sheep raised the specter of science outpacing our moral processing power and had a historic significance that will ripple through the next century. But the story that had the most impact on 1997 was the one that had the most impact throughout this decade: the growth of a new economy, global in scope but brought home in the glad tidings of personal portfolios, that has been...
...opposition in Congress. The result, on that occasion, was a law barring active homosexuals from serving in the military. What had once been a presidential prerogative--requiring only the Commander in Chief's decision--had become the law of the land, virtually impervious to change. Another wave of moral outrage could end up separating the young men and women of boot camp...
Gillett's riches-to-rags-to-riches story is a perfect proxy for the way capital has snowballed down Wall Street in the past two decades--and by the way, don't expect a moral to this tale. In the 1980s Gillett was busy building a billion-dollar empire based on the odd combination of meatpacking and television stations, much of it financed by the junk bonds of Drexel Burnham Lambert, led by the now infamous Michael Milken. Drexel pumped out high-risk securities the way snowmaking machines create instant winter. Gillett, a Wisconsin boy, loved...
...Amistad Again Steven Spielberg puts his craftsmanship in the service of moral seriousness. Again, in this true tale of a slave mutiny and its nightmare aftermath, he creates a gripping portrait of human decency mobilized to help an inhumanly abused minority. Again he unsentimentally places us in touch with our best sentiments...
There's little moral rooting interest here; the fun comes from expert actors spitting out the lurid rhythms of punk patter. You want affability fragging into menace? Tarantino can write it for you. Jackson and Fonda, especially, can deliver it with a swell sting...