Word: moralizes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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While corporal punishment does not imply abuse, the joint conception of children as property share disturbingly similar characteristics. There are certainly many alternative means of punishing children. Teaching them moral codes and the concept of responsibility for one's actions needn't come so close to undermining those of their parents...
...paradox of big weather: it makes people feel important even while it dramatizes their insignificance. In some ways, extreme weather is a brief moral equivalent of war--as stimulating as war can sometimes be, though without most of the carnage...
...religion wherein nature is not inert but restless, stirring, alive with kinetic fronts and meanings and turbulent expectations (forecasts, variables, prophecies). We have installed an elaborate priesthood and technology of interpretation: acolytes and satellites preside over snow and circuses. At least major snowstorms have about them an innocence and moral neutrality that is more refreshing than the last national television spectacle, the O.J. Simpson trial...
...moral indifference of weather, even when destructive, is somehow stimulating. Why? The sheer leveling force is pleasing. It overrides routine and organizes people into a shared moment that will become a punctuating memory in their lives ("Lord, remember the blizzard...
...plot and acting were not emotionally explicit enough, the dewy score is always there to tell you what to feel. The film is symptomatic of a Hollywood that has forgotten subtlety. The comedies are gross, the thrillers sadistic, the dramas moral tales for preschoolers. At least Mr. Holland gives you some good music (Gershwin, Ray Charles, three Beethoven symphonies) to hum along with while you cry. It's a greatest-hits album, with Kleenex...