Word: saintedness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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ECONOMICS: The Sins of a Sainted Bank 54
There ought to be a double resonance in this tale, for the story is about two kinds of mystery, two kinds of lies: domestic and cinematic. Married people may become so involved in their careers that they sink into a genial ignorance of each other's emotional lives. Moviegoers may...
But who is this sainted team? What men can tilt the balance beam? Like the Broncos of Santa Clara, Who beat strong `Zona, to end their era, And even thoughst they lost to Temple, They made a mark, more than a pimple.
Tobias Wolff's subtle, vivid memoir, This Boy's Life, was converted into a one-track movie centered on the loutish, vicious behavior of Wolff's stepfather, played by Robert De Niro. Fried Green Tomatoes, released in 1991, was a masterpiece of artfully soft-edged propaganda, a regular Birth of...
2) Malcolm J. Moldowsky -- a political fixer and Dilbeck's bagman from the sugar lobby -- who worships the sainted memory of John Mitchell. "A dear friend and mentor," says Moldowsky of the former Attorney General and Watergate conspirator. "Savagely maligned."