Word: righteous
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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That's James at his most self-righteous, assaulting what he sees as gross stupidity in the game James's strength, beyond his consistently sharp writing, is an uncanny ability to share a fresh perspective on a game so often smothered with cliches and not-so-true truisms...
...City's "subway vigilante," seems to be shifting. The initial perception of him as a mild-mannered Clark Kent who changed into an intrepid punk stopper was certified last January when a grand jury refused to indict the weedy, self- employed engineer for attempted murder. But lately Goetz's righteous aura has been smudged by new revelations, principally that he admitted firing a bullet into one of his four victims with the words "You don't look so bad. Here's another...
Second, The Crimson has been on the right side of the this issue for many years long before a national consensus emerged. Yes, The Crimson editorial column has been imperfect over the years, but the self righteous He sometimes self righteous as well. The Crimson was both: so should it still be. Jeffrey R. Toobin '82 1981 Crimson Editorial Chairman
...cretin or even an ordinary villain, and his career has followed the dutiful, almost square path one would expect from the characters he projects. When he saw that he was not receiving the kinds of parts he wanted back in the '60s, he did what the forthright, somewhat self-righteous John Book would have done. Rather than fritter away his talent as a bit actor on TV car-chase shows, he all but dropped out for seven years, turning down 90% of the jobs he was offered. With books borrowed from the public library, he learned...
...turn. The others are real-life figures: a former Atlanta police administrator named Chet Dettlinger (Martin Sheen), who investigated the murders on his own and doubts that Williams is the killer; and Camille Bell (Gloria Foster), an outspoken mother of one of the slain children. Both are pictured as righteous crusaders for justice; both were paid consultants on the movie. Williams, played with riveting accuracy by Calvin Levels, is a more ambivalent figure. But the movie's sympathies are hard to miss: when Williams first emerges from his automobile for questioning, he stands in front of a church, his head...