Word: sin
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...banker who is without a similar sin cast the first stone...
...Western-style democracy, Defferre sardonically observed that they preferred "a popular democracy of the type Czechoslovakia has to endure." Angered by the attacks on him, Mitterrand complained at a Socialist meeting that the Communists had been "committing aggression against us nearly every day and accusing us of every sin in the world...
...Rasputin of fraud. The straggly hair that frames his craggy Florentine features is a fright wig of deceit. His flamingo legs carry him with awkward zest from sin to sin, while his tongue utters unguentary lies. Yet we are too conscious that he is a self-aware villain, scoring stunning acting points without carrying complete emotional conviction. And Stefan Gierasch's Orgon is not quite the ideal foil. He seems more like an exacerbated paterfamilias who wants Tartuffe to cow his recalcitrant brood rather than a breathless gull hopelessly infatuated by a bogus saint...
...primacy, declaring that this is a man's world governed by laws written by men and for men. Such an outdated paean to the macho ethic confirms your suspicion that the dirty hands of the movie belong neither to Schneider's murderess nor to her accomplice in crime and sin, but rather to their creator, Monsieur Chabrol...
...packed into a half-hour of Soap. Indeed, double-entendre gags are standard fare on almost every TV show aired after 8 p.m. Since Soap contains neither nudity nor four-letter words nor heavy petting, it is no more salacious than most other series-but it has committed the sin of being open about its preoccupations. Soap doesn't disguise itself as a crime adventure or family comedy. Perhaps that is why the show has become the tardy symbol of a TV sexual revolution that has long since been accomplished...