Word: sinfulness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...FIRST DEADLY SIN...
...locus, sits ominously on the pastor's oaken desk. When it rings, the sound is shrill, urgent, like the Oval Office hot line or the Batphone. But to Pastor Tom Michael, the caller on the other end transcends Zbigniew Brzezinski or Commissioner Gordon. For when the enemy is sin, each call concerns not law and order, but eternal life and perpetual damnation...
...Christian familiar with biblical morality knows that racial discrimination is as much a sin as abortion or homosexuality. We who take the Bible literally (and I do not apologize for that) know that we will be held accountable if we ignore the needs of the poor, if we fail to take care of the environment that God created, or if we seek personal peace and prosperity at the expense of people in struggling Third World countries...
Jaime Cardinal Sin of the Philippines protested against "demographic manipulation." Paul Cardinal Zoungrana of Upper Volta led a protest against the World Bank for its policy of refusing financial aid to countries that have no population planning program...
...movies must succeed on more than a simply a male and female star alone, and here The First Deadly Sin fails. As a murder mystery there is simply no suspense or doubt--it travels the straight and narrow path from beginning, middle, to end, never throwing a curve by presenting an alternate suspect, never even temporarily blocking Delaney's inexorable march to solution of the puzzle. The ingredients of the film are delicious on their own merits--it's only when so combined that the recipe fails to pan out, as neither Sinatra's nor Dunaway's performance can provide...