Word: righteouseness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...fireplace and talked with my father, surrounded by books. We were very, very loved." There was no cash for private high school but Ali won a scholarship to Rosemary Hall in Greenwich, Conn. "I was a terrific student and a very aggressive little girl," she smiles, "and a righteous little student leader." It was only toward the end of her stretch that she began to be bothered by a small, nagging fact: she had never had a date...
Sheriff Tawes (Gregory Peck) is a righteous, brooding Tennessean overtaken by the sterility of his existence. His unattractive daughter asks him inane riddles at the supper table, his wife (Estelle Parsons) quotes marriage advice from the Reader's Digest and his senile father jabbers from the porch swing. When the sheriff questions a young mountain girl named Alma McCain (Tuesday Weld) about a traffic violation, he sees her as a chance-perhaps his last -for freedom, rebellion, sexual gratification, maybe even love. Alma's father (Ralph Meeker) sees a chance for something too: protection for his illegal moonshine...
...misfortune of being co-produced by Phil Spector. One would think that the Beatles would never work with Spector again after his disgusting butchery of "The Long and Winding Road." Yet here he is again, arranging almost every cut as though George were the Crystals or the Righteous Brothers. Phil Spector has in fact produced some great records, but he feels obliged to force his style on every song he touches, even when it clearly doesn...
...thousands of Canadian and American Mortons descended from Ephriam, George, Nathanial and our Thomas. They were not simply being "Puritanical" and self-righteous in their attacks against the scoundrel of Merry Mount. Perhaps one reason for their contempt of him was that he was not related to our "saintly" family. That he was well educated and an aristocrat may also have had some bearing on the fact that, with Governor Bradford, they drove him from the colony. Furthermore, trading booze with the Indians made him a total menace to the Pilgrims, who were heavy drinkers...
...suite in the Executive Office Building, a white marble bust of Socrates staring over his shoulder, the Vice President was tanned from a weekend of tennis in Palm Springs. But he looked and sounded a little weary, and as he spoke, he showed a curious mixture of nearly self-righteous assurance about the accuracy of his charges and an almost sad sense of his own fallibility...