Word: moralizes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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ANDREI TARKOVSKY'S The Sacrifice is without a doubt the most passionate cinematic account to date of the individual's struggle to keep heart and soul together in a world weighed under by the nuclear burden. It's prophecy, propaganda, and apocalyptic parable, shot through with a sense of moral indignation at once rabidly didactic and rationally hysterical...
...Strangelove's power stems from the way Kubrick's finger flirts with the Little Red Button, Tarkovsky presses the button down, then holds it, firmly, for two-and-a-half hours. The result is a film as difficult to assess as the Bomb itself, generating shockwaves of a political, moral, historical, and spiritual nature. The Sacrifice almost demands too much of the viewer, pushing him from breakdown to epiphany, via the Inferno, and releasing him on a world still crouching beneath a specter...
...three of the speakers said that United States universities have a moral responsibility to divest of their holdings in corporations that do business with South Africa...
...When I was working in Crossroads I could be very supportive of disinvestment because of a moral need to pressure the South African government," Waldorf says. "But when I reflect on it, I realize there's no way to pressure the government...
...want to support sitting on the fence,which is essentially what constructive engagementcomes down to. But I also don't want to support aviolent revolution," Waldorf says. "I don't knowthat there's anything in between, but neitherseems very moral...