Word: righteousness
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...country-club appearance hardly does justice to a complex personality that is supremely confident, emotional and keenly attentive to the importance of politics as theater. Opinions vary along political lines. To her admirers she is bold and indefatigable. To her detractors, she can be over-bearing and righteous. She is sometimes compared not with Maggie Thatcher -- which would be too simple, and mistaken -- but with Ronald Reagan and Bobby Kennedy...
...devotees, Rolling Stone readers, and self-righteous Collegium members out there have metal--and me--all wrong...
...most personal of the books, it is in some ways the most powerful. But Malan's self-absorption obscures his extraordinary credentials. He is a relative of Daniel F. Malan, one of the architects of apartheid. Rian becomes the righteous recorder of black rage in the "charnel house" of Soweto, the largest black township created by that apartheid. Alas, the conflict of genealogy and emotion tends to produce more heat than light. In a typical episode, Malan recalls a psychopath who murdered whites with a hammer; Simon Mpungose's story "seemed to unfold like the story of a saint, deeply...
Remarkably, this turn-around in attitude had coincided with the hockey team's lousy season. Sure, these academically responsible editors may have mercilessly besieged their hockey reporters all season long with righteous snivelling to the tune of, "What the hell is wrong with the hockey team? I thought you said we were going to be good...
...homosexuals in the dialogue. The difference here is that the filmmakers and the lead actors (including rap artists Kid 'N Play and Full Force) are all middle-class blacks. The script virtually carries warning labels for unwary teens. Drinking is bad; sex without a condom is irresponsible. Rude and righteous, House Party is John Hughes divided by Spike Lee. "I wanted to make a movie that I had not seen," says writer-director Reginald Hudlin, 28, "but a movie that I wanted...