Word: righteousness
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...SORT OF VOICE YOU MIGHT hear wafting pure and plaintive from the holding tank in a county jail. With the face of an orphaned angel, STACY DEAN CAMPBELL offers no fuss, no frills, just righteous white-boy blues ("Would you run away from me/ If I came crawlin' back to you"). His debut album, Lonesome Wins Again, is 10 sticks of slow-fused Nashville dynamite from his own pen and those of top country songsmiths Don Schlitz and Jamie O'Hara. The best tunes, including Baby Don't You Know and I Won't, take you two-stepping back...
...black man she tries to befriend. Director Jonathan Kaplan (The Accused, Heart Like a Wheel) has the gifts of finding verve and ambiguity in TV-movie subjects and drawing beautiful interpretations from his lead actresses. As with Pfeiffer here. Her work is glamourless, subtle, heroic; her performance is a righteous heartbreaker...
...Americans prefer such assertions of national interest to be accompanied by moral ideals, each helping to cloak the other. From the Monroe Doctrine to Manifest Destiny, idealism and realism were the warp and woof of U.S. foreign policy. In a nation that views its economic and political system as righteous, the distinction between interests and ideals tends to blur...
Scrooge's one friend is his ex-partner Marley. Now residing in some realm of hell, Marley arrives on the scene to save Scrooge's soul. That is, after all, what friends are for. Marley resorts to scare tactics and sends three ghosts to "urge" Scrooge towards a righteous Christmas spirit...
...cast a "cold eye" on contemporary Germany's record vis-a-vis Gypsies and others before we judge it too harshly, to understand where Germany and most contemporary Germans -- for example, the 350,000 who recently marched against racism in Berlin -- stand before we pronounce our easy and self-righteous j'accuse. We might remember, for example, that the German constitution has for decades included one of the most liberal and generous policies toward political asylum seekers anywhere in the world...