Word: sin
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Connecticut and get smacked on the nose with a newspaper by his wife. This is the oldest story: sex and politics, powerful men doing stupid, squalid things. No harm done, except to Morris and family. Morris' wife said in an interview with TIME, "Let him who is without sin cast the first stone." Of course most of us do not manage to sin as colorfully as Dick Morris apparently...
...premise behind the futuristic "Escape From L.A." is promising but proves unfulfilling. It is the early 21st century and Los Angeles has degenerated into a center of immorality and sin. The new president-for-life (Cliff Robertson) declares the United States a land of moral superiority--no smoking, no red meat, no freedom of religion. When a massive earthquake strikes southern California separating Los Angeles physically from the mainland, the president declares the new island outside America's borders and deports all immoral citizens of the U.S. to the City of Angels...
Imagine anything you like, and in all probability you would still be hard-pressed to keep up with Puzo's devilish invention. There is scarcely a deadly sin or narrative device that he does not plant in his tale. No other popular writer mixes suds and satire with such disarming effect...
...citizenship status is already on thin ice: not only do I go to school back East, but I'm living with a group of people known for their know-it-all attitudes and general snobbery. Snobbery is a cardinal sin in a town this small. With so few people, chances are the woman you cut off in traffic yesterday will determine whether or not you get a library card tomorrow. Be rude to the man checking out your videos at the convenience store, and you'll find out at the next city council meeting he's deciding whether...
...check. To him, the key to value-creating work is mastering "process," or how bits of work that form a product or service come together. Says he: "I think this is the work of the angels. In a world where so many people are so deprived, it's a sin to be inefficient...