Word: sinful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...from the way the world looks on the evening news. Only there it is the government that appears a maze of fraud and deceit, its machine a mystery run by mad men. Watergate has given even greater cause to conspiracy theory; it wrecked public trust in the powerful, spotlighted sin among the elect. But not, for many, brightly enough. Nixon could be neither caught nor convicted. And a lesson was that nothing in the government is what it says or appears to be. Now nobody believes that the Energy Crisis is for real, but they can't be sure...
...another wave of hysteria from moviegoers. "The movie is going to cause so many pastoral problems I wish they had never made it." Beyond that, argues Woods, the film never really grapples with the problem of evil. "The devil's true work is temptation. He leads us into sin. Evil as we know it is basically, fundamentally sin. That is almost entirely missing from the movie. The devil in the movie was an easy devil to deal with...
...hate that foolish game we played And the need that was expressed And the mercy that you showed to me Who ever would have guessed I went out on lower Broadway And I felt that place within That hollow place where martyrs weep And angels play with sin...
...absolution for his brother. As with Long Day's Journey into Night, it was another attempt "to make peace with my dead," to lift the curse of the O'Neill family through the transfiguring insight and purgation of drama. Quintero has beautifully orchestrated the themes of sin, remorse, guilt, self-damnation and death that haunted the profoundly per/ turbed spirit of O'Neill...
...First Deadly Sin, Sanders...