Word: righteouseness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...contemporary significance of the occupation remains obscure as well. The implied connection between a vulgar, greedy film producer, a policeman beating a demonstrating student and Michel experiences in the occupation is never clarified. The student is hardly a sympathetic figure--his rhetoric is simplistic and his behavior infurlatingly self-righteous--yet the director suggests that his resistance to the French police today is somehow analogous to his resistance to Vichy. Nevertheless, though his understanding of this connection is unsatisfying, Drach has found an effective formal means--the intercutting of color and black-and-white sequences--of handling the difficulties involved...
...same time, a lot of people may be sympathetic to Connally. Many Americans always had a vague suspicion of the righteous zealotry of the Special Prosecutor's team, realizing that issues are seldom so clear-cut as the public was led to believe in the Watergate scandals. Even before his indictment, Connally was a long shot for the Republican presidential nomination, and President Ford would have to withdraw for Connally to have a chance. Connally still lacks a network of supporters in the GOP and an office. Unlike his potential opponents, he has not been out preaching the Gospel...
...contracts Bing gingerly offered. No other singer has been able to do this; it is her legend, and she's proud of it. It became a David-and-Goliath myth which her fans loved and continually embellished, the most ardent even supposing that she refused contracts solely out of righteous indignation for not having been appreciated earlier. Recently she's become pretty candid about what was actually in those contracts: insultingly poor roles, old productions, or performance dates that Bing knew conflicted with her commitments to sing elsewhere--in one instance, her debut at Covent Garden...
Publicly, Gladstone was not the least ashamed of what he called his "rescue work" with tarts. In 1853, he permitted a would-be blackmailer to make this work public rather than pay hush money. Gladstone's political career-he was then Chancellor of the Exchequer and righteous apostle of the balanced budget -was unharmed because Victorian society preferred to regard his evening excursions as an eccentric pet charity...
Throughout, Hearts and Minds displays more than enough heart. It is mind that is missing. Perhaps the deepest flaw lies in the method: the Viet Nam War is too convoluted, too devious to be examined in a style of compilation without comment. And righteous indignation may tend to blind the documentary film maker to his prime task: the representation of life in all its fullness, not only those incidents that conform to his thesis. Peter Davis is the talented creator of much-prized TV documentaries (Hunger in America, The Selling of the Pentagon). But these were simpler projects...