Word: righteous
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Righteous Babe...
...breakup of his first marriage, and in his various health problems, and in the superfine details of his wheelings and dealings and squealings with studio executives. Even worse, there's a fundamental lack of self-insight here. Eszterhas wants to spin himself as a Hollywood outsider, a self-righteous desperado who took the town for all it was worth and then rode off into the sunset (he moved back to Ohio in 2001), but at the same time he is unbearably eager to drop names and show us what a hotshot insider he is, or at least was. So treat...
...embrace. For two years after Sept. 11, the world became used to the stubborn, arrogant, go-it-alone, kill-the-bastards approach of the United States with regard to its terrorist enemies. Now, however, America has become a paranoid victim again after its lengthy, and ultimately dissatisfying, spree of righteous vengeance...
...Woolrich original had a different twist in mind: the twisting of the woman?s righteous quest into soulless revenge, as, one by one, the suspects die off and our heroine grows callouses on her conscience. The book was a variation on Woolrich?s first novel, ?The Bride Wore Black,? which was also the story of a woman who, having been infected by wrongful death, spreads the contagion around to other innocent people. (The woman may have transferred her husband?s betrayal onto other...
...idea of executing mentally handicapped murderers—when choice isn’t involved, pity is far more warranted than anger. So go ahead, pass judgment on celebrities for their latest relapse or for trading in their aging wives for younger models, but spare me your righteous indignation when it comes to molesting children...