Word: sinfulness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Stephen loves Christine, in his fashion. He pampers his girls and introduces them to his randy friends because he likes being liked. His sin is in assuming, like nearly everyone who jestered near the thrones of power in Britain and America, that the games could be pubic without ever going public. Enter Profumo (Ian McKellen), who in his high-domed hairdo looks like a samurai of probity. Jack is an indiscretion waiting to happen. He has so little furtive pleasure to gain, and so much reputation to put at risk, that his dalliance has the lurid fatalism of a soap...
Overall, these jurisdictions hope to raise an extra $5.1 billion next year. More than a third of that would be levied in just three Northeastern states -- Massachusetts, New York and Connecticut. The main sources of new revenue are so-called sin taxes on smoking and drinking. Confronting a deficit of as much as $300 million in Massachusetts, Dukakis has proposed tobacco- and alcohol-tax increases as well as a phased 10 cents rise in the gasoline tax, to 21 cents. New York's Cuomo last week reached agreement with legislators on $1 billion in extra revenue, raising...
Koop says no one should be surprised, that the report is consistent with his moral view that you can hate sin but love the sinner. "I am the Surgeon General, not the chaplain, of all the people, and that includes homosexuals," he says. He outraged conservatives again in January. Although opposed to abortion morally, Koop concluded, following an 18-month study undertaken after President Reagan promised right-to-life leaders a report, that the evidence just wasn't there to condemn the practice as psychologically harmful...
...morality can be. Last year the Hanshin Tigers, a professional baseball team in Osaka, got rid of their longtime star, the American Randy Bass, because he stayed at his ailing son's bedside instead of returning to the team. For the Japanese, putting family before company was the ultimate sin; to Bass, no doubt, abandoning his son for a game would have seemed the greater treachery. Many fans these days believe that baseball players who turn their heroism to capital, selling autographs to kids (Mickey Mantle earns more from signing his , name than he ever did from playing ball...
...times to gobble down everything before us, only to find, too late, that it is our ideals we have consumed, and we have not been enlarged by the feasts, but only diminished. Let the harassment fit the crime, one is tempted to conclude. And let him who is without sin throw out the first ball...