Word: utopias
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Villains? How did they get loose in this gun-free Utopia? Therein lies the simple tale Demolition Man has to tell. For all its sanctimoniousness, San Angeles is a fascist state. Its smooth-spoken leader, Raymond Cocteau (Nigel Hawthorne), is annoyed by a persistent band of rebels, living where such folk always do in fictions like this, in the city's underground passages. There they cook hamburgers (well, actually, they're ratburgers), swill beer and dream of cholesterol's restoration. To deal with the outlaws, Cocteau frees a killer named Simon Phoenix (Wesley Snipes) from cryogenic prison (they took...
...major actors, signals large aspiration and a desire to present a panoramic vision of life in what everyone is now pleased to think of as the heart of American darkness. Los Angeles, the city that has in a wink of history's eye ceased to be Everyman's Great Utopia, has become instead everyone's Great Dystopia...
Students who attended the lecture responded enthusiastically to Chavis' words. "Many people think they have come into utopia here at Harvard, but there is work to be done here as surely as there is work to be done in South Central L.A.," said Divinity School student Stephanie Spellers...
...truth, I think, is that Americans love marriage too much. We rush into marriage with abandon, expecting a micro-Utopia on Earth. We pile all our needs onto it, our expectations, neuroses and hopes. In fact, we made marriage into the panda bear of human social institutions: we loved it to death...
Benhabib's speech, though, betrays her academic background. She has published six weighty-sounding books (the most recent being "Critique, Norm and Utopia, A Study of the Foundations of Critical Theory") and has taught at universities in Germany, Italy and France as well...