Word: righteousness
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...jeans, Whoppers and soda pop. But ask again, on a dull, gray, Spenglerian day, and the view is altogether different. Alarming, appalling, totally awesome. The critic Dwight Macdonald called pop culture a spreading ooze back in the 1950s, when Sylvester Stallone was still just a boy. Today America's righteous pop thug is huge, ubiquitous, swaggering from one medium into the next and the next: he is a movie warrior, he is a TV cartoon character, he is a plastic doll, he is a music-video creature and now, in candy racks all over America, he is chewing gum--Rambo...
Outrage and ecstasy are in short supply these days. The first emotion is too righteous for the Age of Ambiguity; the second has been debased into the brand name of an upscale drug. So it is salutary for a film to examine and embrace those anachronistic, ever-so-'60s extremes. Bliss wants to pose the biggest questions -- about life, death and the twilight state in between that passes for existence -- in the weirdest way. It fulminates like a bag-lady savant on the toxic dangers of technology and moral compromise. It has big, randy dreams about its hero's search...
...session group and the considerable singing and songwriting talents of Kim Wilson, who also blows a mean blues harp. There is a lot of inbreeding in the T-Birds' music: Zydeco, blues and rock, Keith Richards and Bob Wills. But the sound they tap out of all this is righteous and roughhouse, good enough to get even the bouncers dancing...
HOLD THE APPLAUSE. Before we congratulate the liberals and the Black community for recognizing the "crisis in the Black family," we should ensure that their response isn't an ineffective and self-righteous treatment of a critical problem...
...problem is not teenage sex but teenage motherhood, except in the eyes of self-righteous individuals who seek to impose their values on others. Moralizing is no substitute for policy recommendations to prevent teen motherhood and to make women self-sufficient as single parents...