Word: righteous
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...president of the United States beats a righteous tattoo on the drums of war. The U.S. Congress supports him with resolutions authorizing an air and land assault in Asia. Europeans voice their skepticism from the sidelines, while little is heard from?or about?the civilians most likely to be on the receiving end of American artillery. As the world's most powerful nation girds for a moral and military crusade, history whispers a precedent. Now the larger atrocity in U.S. sight lines is terrorism; 40 years ago it was communism. Today the enemy is Iraq. But it seems like only...
Sleater-Kinney’s members are sexy for the same reason that those men were: they’re powerful. But despite their unapologetic musical muscle, their dominance over the stage has not a hint of brutality. It’s built from joy, righteous anger and a refusal to be meek...
...That was also the thinking of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, which put Iowa's First District on its list of "vulnerable" Republican targets. And this wasn't just any Republican. This was the "righteous" Jim Nussle, who appeared on the House floor in 1991 with a paper bag over his head to express shame over the congressional bounced-check scandal...
...called "musical comedy" - emphasis on the comedy. Audiences devoured "The Producers" like the first spoonful of chocolate sundae after Yom Kippur. If the show wasn't quite the laugh-till-you-break-in-half enterprise that critics indicated, it proved that modern musicals could make you feel something besides righteous and rotten. Happy, for example...
Columbine is a Molotov cocktail of interviews, cartoons, news footage and righteous rabble-rousing. It is also a road movie in search of the troubled soul of America. As Moore told TIME: "It's a film about why we're so violent toward each other, and why we tend to export a lot of this violence around the world. Because otherwise we're actually pretty good people...