Word: righteous
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...down and strikes him again and again above the eyes. The action looks faked, but no one seems to mind. Casey is down, in seeming agony, twisting his body like an animal buckling in a slaughterhouse pen. As his pain subsides, Casey gets up, his face filled with righteous anger. The crowd calls for retribution, for redress of grievances and victory for Casey. Suddenly Casey pins Howard. "Casey nailed that cheating bastard," avers a man in the front row. Justice is done...
...assuming the Walters' woeful tone was aimed at the respective campaigns, two glaring facts work against her self-righteous pronouncement. This winnowing of the prospective panelists was perfectly justified under the agreed-upon terms of the debate. Just as in jury selection, both sides were given a chance to reject persons they felt were unfavorable to their cause. An adequate solution would have been merely to continue submission of candidates until four were chosen. Furthermore, it's completely unclear which campaign did most of the rejecting. Perhaps one of the other did the majority, but Walters' statement lambasted both candidates...
Questions about the role of religion in politics also occur on a level more abstract than the to-and-fro over particular legislative issues. By allying himself with the Religious Right and its tendency toward a self-righteous zeal, President Reagan can seem, at times, to be appropriating godliness itself for his party and Administration. Last week Columnist Mike Royko joked bitterly about the tendency. "They've managed to convince a large segment of the population that God is a conservative Republican...
...fling with a seemingly impotent Spanish bullfighter overstacked with single entendres. The Dereks were asked to cut some of the steamier scenes in order to avoid an X rating, and they snipped ten minutes of dialogue. After a compromise deal the film opened last week nationwide with a righteous 17-and-older restriction. After all, says Golan, "we and the Dereks don't make movies to keep them on the shelves. In Europe, this kind of film is considered Walt Disney...
...Lorean's shrewd and crafty defense attorneys, Howard Weitzman and Donald Rée, maintained a similar high pitch of righteous indignation throughout the trial. They portrayed their client as an embattled entrepreneur seeking to fulfill the American dream, a man himself the victim of a giant conspiracy: "Lured, lied to and pushed" into a trap set by Government agents who were "on a headlong rush to glory." The tactic was to put the Government on trial, and it worked. De Lorean never took the stand. Nor did his lawyers ever make a direct defense on the grounds...