Word: righteous
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...much talk" about limited nuclear war and that "this talk should be terminated." Reagan's latest speech has also helped. Maybe when the rhetorical belligerence dies down on this side of the Atlantic, the caterwauling on the other side, the whining of the Europeans and the self-righteous propagandizing of the Soviets will do the same. Or at least there will be less excuse...
...Workers '80 shows why. The propaganda piece is as gripping as old T.V. footage of the civil rights movements, for there actually is moral energy here, actually a righteous and unco-optable underdog, actually a clear, courageous and sharp challenge to all the bullshit. May be no other episode matches the Polish revolution of 1980-81 for demonstrating the power of people to act peacefully, but forcefully, to overturn the old and corrupt; for all its technical flaws, this movie captures the spirit and the fact of that revolution and should be seen by anyone who gives a damn about...
...THEORIES of supply-side economics are hardly the scientific laws their self-righteous proponents claim them to be. Only absurd faith can justify belief that they are more than a political ruse to subsidize the indulgence of large-corporations and the affluent with the sufferings of the needy. It's like a trick with mirrors, the political maneuverings, and the legislation, the theories and the ideology covering for a system that guarantees injustice for the larger population. This time. David Stockman got caught in the middle...
...Mister Roberts (on stage 1948-51, on screen 1955) he could still show surprise that the men of the U.S.S. Reluctant would confer so much moral authority on him. But from then on the Fonda character was at ease with his place in American history, whether as a lone righteous juror in 12 Angry Men, or as any number of military men, government officials?and desperadoes...
...some reason, the righteous, superstar assertion, that you want to believe so much, that I did believe when I say him in concert, once recorded, diminishes his victory. I'd rather Garland keep fighting his rather, fighting racial injustice, fithting urban dacay, than to tell me the fighting's over. This is a good collection of Jeffreys songs for the uninitiated, but besides having some of the best from his albums, it also exposes his weaknesses. Maybe the problem is that anyone who so completely bares his soul demands that we take the good with the bad. So Garland Jeffreys...