Word: moralizes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...flocked to the party since the '60s, don't always square with the interests of its third and most enduring constituency, freewheeling capitalists. Free enterprise is a powerful and munificent system that also has a way of eliminating jobs and stifling pay raises while contriving new threats to the moral order, from cyberporn to Courtney Love. And so the moralists and low-wage earners who are now part of the coalition sometimes see a role for government intervention where the business wing sees none...
...advantages," the 73-year-old Kansan said, suggesting that, at the dawn of the new century, the cure to the nation's moral and social problems was a return to the values of his modest prairie upbringing...
...premise behind the futuristic "Escape From L.A." is promising but proves unfulfilling. It is the early 21st century and Los Angeles has degenerated into a center of immorality and sin. The new president-for-life (Cliff Robertson) declares the United States a land of moral superiority--no smoking, no red meat, no freedom of religion. When a massive earthquake strikes southern California separating Los Angeles physically from the mainland, the president declares the new island outside America's borders and deports all immoral citizens of the U.S. to the City of Angels...
...moral ambiguity of the movie is also a strength. The citizens of L.A. are violent and deadly--classic bad guys...
Viewers can turn for a beacon of moral light to Snake, but the protagonist is violent and moody. Still, viewers can look up to his moral integrity as he sticks to his principles...