Word: virtuousic
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...This development actually spoils the film's only promise; for a while it seemed that Oliver's Story might turn into a remake of one of those old Doris Day-Rock Hudson films, with O'Neal in the Day part-endlessly tempted but ever virtuous...
...deliberately and consistently to bring its influence to bear on behalf of those regimes which promise the largest degree of personal and national liberty." But it seems that for Moynihan, treating other nations as equals generally means telling them they are inferiors. Bringing influence to bear on behalf of virtuous regimes means spending one's time dressing down regimes that are less perfect. In the end, what this reflects is not only a hatred of totalitarian principles, but a personal contempt for the cultures that embrace them, and perhaps for the peoples of developing nations in general. Thus this sort...
...speaks of the 1956 Hungarian uprising in terms that have a chilling contemporary application: "I am not one of those who long for people to take up arms again in an uprising doomed to be crushed under the eyes of an international society that will spare neither applause nor virtuous tears before returning to their slippers like football enthusiasts on Saturday evening after a big game. There are already too many dead in the stadium...
...specifically cited pulp mills (as in the case of the New York Times, among others) and pulp timberlands (as in the case of Time Inc., among others). In a somewhat gratuitous swipe that he admitted was of no constitutional relevance, he noted that media conglomerates are no more "virtuous, wise or restrained in the exercise of corporate power" than any other corporation...
There is no doubt about the outcome. Nor should there be: the diabolical first husband, the virtuous widow and the cloddish second husband have been dancing their dance in folk tales for thousands of years. The film's last shot is of people leaving church. Dona Flor is dressed in her best, and so is the pharmacist. Vadinho, his arm linked with Dona Flor's, is naked, and very pleased with himself...