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Word: moralizes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...TENTH MAN (CBS) A rich lawyer imprisoned by the Nazis in Paris bargains to save his life and later faces the consequences. Anthony Hopkins made the viewer feel every moral pang in Graham Greene's engrossing story...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Video: Best of '88: Video | 1/2/1989 | See Source »

Efforts to stop the destruction run into moral as well as practical obstacles. How can developed nations demand onerous debt payments and ask the debtors to preserve their forests? How can countries worry about biodiversity when their people are concerned with feeding themselves...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Planet Of The Year: Biodiversity The Death of Birth | 1/2/1989 | See Source »

There are no moral complexities here, no cunning passages of history, no double agents trading allegiances for meaning. But there is a tumultuous plot, an appealing young protagonist -- who except Hitler could root against a pre- pubescent? -- and a prime villain. Colonel Gregor Laemmle, the SS officer in pursuit of Thomas, is far more than the usual posturing sadist. A former philosophy professor, he is a connoisseur of art and literature and something of a chess master himself. Laemmle regards the hunting of Thomas as a large- scale tournament, with gambits to be savored even when they go against...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Savory Gambits | 1/2/1989 | See Source »

...rewritten. Now Rome has another reason to be vexed, this time by the words of one of its favored churchmen. In a TV show on AIDS, the leading figure of the church in France, Jean-Marie Cardinal Lustiger, generally considered a pro-papal conservative, dutifully defended the church's moral tenets. But then Lustiger, who was appointed Archbishop of Paris by Pope John Paul II in 1981, added that those "who carry the virus and cannot live in chastity ((should)) use the proposed methods." That clearly meant condoms, though Lustiger did not utter the word. Last week in L'Express...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Condoms, Cont'd. | 12/26/1988 | See Source »

Robert Towne's plot recalls the old James Cagney melodramas in which righteous Pat O'Brien fought for his soul and rotten Humphrey Bogart tried to perforate his body. But the moral is utterly today: it's about going straight without paying the price. As handsome and slack muscled as a surfer past his prime, the movie renounces ambiguity for confusion. In the end, like an old set of tires or a frayed friendship, Tequila Sunrise just wears...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Two Out of Five Ain't Bad | 12/19/1988 | See Source »

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