Word: truths
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Right now," she added, "the South is bringing out more of the truth...
...euro project, and I will not defeat the project, because I'm in favor of it on condition that it is based on a stable and solid foundation." But he quickly adds, "It is my duty and responsibility to see that there are enough safeguards." One moment of truth will be early next year when Europe's central-bank governors issue their judgment on which countries have truly met the Maastricht criteria without accounting tricks. While Tietmeyer hopes for a consensus report, he allows, "We have agreed that if necessary, we would present different views." If they...
...power in Moscow and denounced Stalin at a secret Soviet party congress. Learning of this indictment of a "personality cult," Deng commended it to his own party--a move used to discredit him in the following decade by the Mao-worshipping Red Guards of the Cultural Revolution. In truth, Deng was still loyal to Mao. Indeed, when Mao moved against his intellectual rivals in the Anti-Rightist purge, Deng organized a merciless roundup of as many as half a million of his friend's ideological enemies. Mao appreciated the fervor. During a 1957 visit to Moscow, Mao took Khrushchev aside...
...John Wright (Jon Voight), the white storekeeper in the town and a reality-based character, make common, inspiring cause to rescue Rosewood's surviving women and children from the swamp where they have taken refuge from the blood-crazed posse searching for them. There is some historical truth to this passage, but not to the well-staged, high-impact action sequence that brings the film to an end. In fact, the psychologically devastated survivors of the massacre embraced silence and anonymity until the few still remaining began talking to investigators in the early...
Ordinarily such trespasses against truth would be enough to condemn such a movie, but Rhames' gravity and grace, Voight's pinched anguish as he wills himself to do right, the moving work of actors like Don Cheadle and Esther Rolle do much to redeem this film for human if not historical reality. Rosewood finds, in a shameful bygone moment, sources of pride for contemporary audiences. There are worse things to do with the past...