Word: saviorism
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...This past Wednesday when I was able to bring my seven-year-old cousin Henry, with his awe-filled eyes, to the clinching game of the World Series triumph over the Braves, the heroes stood taller than Paul Bunyan again. When Jim Leyritz, savior of the '96 series, came to bat in the eighth inning, Henry clasped his hands together in prayer and asked the sky "Can he hit another home run?" As the ball sailed over the left center field fence, Henry knew there were deities of the baseball diamond, and that they understood fate...
...Bringing Out the Dead, Martin Scorsese resurrects a Manhattan savior of the streets in Frank Pierce (Nicolas Cage), a burned-out medic who has lost faith in himself and is haunted by the ghost of a girl he couldn't save. He finally finds redemption with the help of Mary (Patricia Arquette), whose own suffering brings them together. Here, Scorcese revisits his Last Temptation of Christ with a bit of Taxi Driver thrown in. With enough Christian motifs packed into the film to revive Sunday school memories for any born-again atheist, this movie explores the world of the paramedics...
...likely is for him to argue that, essentially, desperate disease requires a desperate cure. As the Unabomber manifesto put it, "The Industrial Revolution and its consequences have been a disaster for the human race." In the Unabomber's mind, society was in desperate need of a brave and brazen savior who wouldn't let murder stand in his way. "Well, let me put it this way," Kaczynski says. "I don't know if violence is ever the best solution, but there are certain circumstances in which it may be the only solution...
...Marie finally finds her savior in Robert (Francois Berleand), the school principal at the elementary school where she teaches eager, innocent children the mornings after her nights of depravity. Although he's a troll compared to Paul and Paolo, Robert has more thoughtful things to say, takes Marie to romantic dinners--and introduces her to S&M. "Shall I dominate you?" he croons considerately before he ties her up at an excruciatingly slow pace...
...maneuvered himself into position to wrest the Democratic presidential nomination from Al Gore. The former basketball star and three-term New Jersey Senator has just given what some are calling the most effective speech of his career, a fuzzy, conversational, unabashedly idealistic sermon that sells him as the savior of politics itself ("The American people have a right to be skeptical, but I have a right to try to change that skepticism"). Polls in key states put him in a dead heat with Gore. In the new TIME/CNN poll, he leads Gore in New Hampshire for the first time. While...