Word: sinful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...sometimes forgettable but the lift was always there. The Kennedys nurtured the nation's spirit; they planted hope before they designed new schemes. They led an adventure that had its roots in Boston's Irish wards and embraced great wealth, the Harvard Yard and the hint of sin at El Morocco. It was not always in the best of taste, but it bubbled...
Perhaps Magic's worst sin, though, is that of viciousness. While there is nothing wrong with violence in movies, there is a great deal amiss when a film exists for the sole purpose of showing gruesome murders. Even in show biz, it is not necessary to sink quite so low to make a buck...
South Africans also look hard for more modern parallels. Stories about racism in the States appear fairly frequently in the newspapers, as if someone is saying to the U.S., "let those without sin cast the first stone." (Stories about disinvestment by institutions like the American Friends Service Committee are buried in the back pages of the white papers, though they are more prominently displayed in black papers like Percy Qoboza's Post.) But the U.S. is clearly some kind of symbol to South Africans, though it is a confused one at best. To blacks, it seems to be a place...
...wages of sin were visited upon us today," McCurdy said. "But I'll be damned if I know what we did to deserve...
...bottom of the idea of sin in Final Payments, then, lies the desire for complete control over life, for the purity and self-discipline that bring absolute certainty. There is something unique about a modern heroine who can take seriously the conflict between a religious yearning for clarity and the temptation of transient physical pleasures. Unfortunately, when Isabel tries "shaping" her life in the outside world, both she and the book seem to get lost in the muddle...