Word: righteous
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...marginally more persuasive in NBC's Hell Town, in which Robert Blake plays a convict-turned-priest in a ghetto neighborhood of East Los Angeles. Like Michael Landon's Highway to Heaven, which it will follow on Wednesday nights, the program is unabashedly upbeat and sentimental. Nevertheless, Blake's righteous fervor and the campy, 1950's-style opening credits (the title is actually filled with flames) give the show some tabloid...
...Delta Force is a collection of modern heroes, like the lonely range riders who galloped from town to town to protect the innocent and punish the guilty. For the Delta Force, the modernday righteous sheriff, the hang-em-high brand of frontier justice means criminals can't escape through the maze of over-bureaucratized courts or tangled international relations. Their kind of justice also means that weeping families get a taste of revenge...
...blandness has its advantages. Norris is seldom off-putting. In Code of Silence, an exceptionally deft movie of its kind, Director Andy Davis has provided a perfect schematic vehicle: a righteous, nice-looking automaton is caught in a lot of crossfire. There are rotten Italian gangsters, rotten Colombian gangsters and rotten fellow police officers. As Sergeant Eddie Cusak, Norris refuses to go along with the cover-up of a killing by a scruffy underling (Ralph Foody) and tries to mediate a gang war. He may be good, but he has no family and no girlfriend, and gets uncomfortable...
BLACK SOUTH AFRICANS under the guns of the apartheid regime would be glad to hear that apartheid agent Abe S Hoppers was met last week by the righteous indignation of Harvard protesters...
Normal Heart reviews the unfolding of the epidemic through the eyes of a querulous but sincerely righteous gay activist. Audience members may feel inclined to tune out during the protracted debate over the direction of gay political movements, and Playwright Kramer belabors his belief that the proper response to AIDS is universal sexual abstinence, at least among gays. But he captures the panic and self-hatred that AIDS has unleashed. He dishes up highly imaginative invective, not least toward a character based upon himself. And he creates a complex, interesting romance between his surrogate, played by Brad Davis (who starred...