Word: moralizers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...itself smelled of emptiness anyway; works of art had to be gritty and sincere and full of doubt, in homage to Papa Cezanne. But some kinds of virtuosity are deliciously full; they are self-delighting in their reluctance to turn every stroke of paint into the residue of a moral struggle that may not have really happened; they make difficult performance look easy, and give weight to casualness. Sargent was that kind of painter, and it seems pointless to rebuke him for it--especially at the end of a century whose art he did not for a moment aspire...
...disingenuous for rich and famous moviemakers to tell us how awful it is to be rich and famous on television. As it happens, the moral of EDtv is of less import than its tone--which seems loosey-goosey but is carefully land-mined with gags--and its characters, who are unremarkable but worth getting to know. Shari, for instance, is a woman at profound discomfort in her bountiful body. Ray treats Shari as a gaudy accessory, and she accepts his evaluation. Elfman paints a nice portrait of a woman fighting for esteem. (Psst: she gets it from...
Haskins denies knowledge of the scandal, but it is now his word against that of two grad students who haven't a thing to gain from slander. Anyone who believes Clem, no doubt a bastion of moral probity when it comes to hoops, also believed that Clinton did not have sexual relations with that woman, that Reagan did not recall and that Nixon was not a crook...
Haskins denies knowledge of the scandal, but it is now his word against that of two graduate students who haven't any thing to gain from slander. Anyone who believes Clem, no doubt a bastion of moral probity when it comes to hoops, also believed that Clinton did not have sexual relations with that woman, that Reagan did not recall and that Nixon was not a crook...
According to Lerner, citizens should not demand that leaders be on a higher moral level because leaders would need to lie to keep themselves on a higher moral plane...