Word: moralizes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...long the source of American onscreen drama, Los Angeles has lately become the stage for the nation's most gripping real-life dramas as well. The sort of narratives that Hollywood studios, in their quest for blockbuster profits, have almost abandoned--complex moral tales of actual human beings facing the ultimate issues of love and loss, rage and separation--have moved from the sound stages onto the streets. Beginning with the taped beating of Rodney King in 1991 (by far the most important footage to come out of L.A.'s image factory that year) and continuing through the O.J. Simpson...
...Shaw's heroes are men of moral passion." (English...
...Professor Michael Glennon, an international law professor from UC-Davis who was one of our group moderators, mentioned this and other important facts while pointing out that the U.S., under international law, has a contractual obligation to pay its arrears. He noted that the U.S. will eventually lose its moral powers of persuasion if it fails to adhere to international laws...
These Martians are imagined as a civilization of pre-moral, technologically advanced three-year-olds, the kind of mean widdle kids who cheerfully tell you that they come in peace just before they zap you with their ray guns. The earthlings, from the family in the White House to the gang in Las Vegas, to the dysfunctional bunch living in a trailer near a small Kansas town, are presented as entirely worthy of zapping; they are all either too dumb or too self-absorbed to warrant salvation. Indeed, the big, slowly dawning joke in Tim Burton's Mars Attacks...
...more tolerant of the vices of others because they want their own vices to be tolerated in return. "You can have your vice if you will let me keep mine" is the philosophy underlying America's leftward shift. It is a benighted movement away from the light of any moral standard, the impulse of a nation that no longer has the courage to call others to account for their actions for fear it will be judged by the same standard. GIUSEPPE BUTERA Washington...