Word: righteousness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...when the poet Ingrid Magnussen poisons her lover, consigning herself to a jail life and her 12-year-old daughter to Los Angeles' foster-care system. Young Astrid gets off to a shaky start at the home of a born-again Christian who shoots her in a fit of righteous jealousy. She survives that, though, as well as prison notes from her mother, which include sentiments like this: "Sometimes I wish you were dead, so I would know you were safe." Fitch tends to get lost in the lyricism of her prose, but there are satisfying moments of clarity...
...celebrated one. Terence Rattigan's 1946 play ignored the element of religious prejudice (the boy was Catholic) but mined the domestic, romantic and political realms to create a superior, stiff-upper-lip weepie. The surprise is it still works, in this beautifully judged film with Nigel Hawthorne as the righteous father and Jeremy Northam (an Olivier incarnate) as the famous barrister who takes the case. Have a good thought and a quiet cry for dear Old England...
Clarke is magnificent as the third Richard, slowly loosing grip on the kingdom and his sanity. He bounces around the stage in a fury of guilt and reproach as the valiant Richmond moves to retake the throne. Parris perfectly complements Clarke as the righteous force of good that inevitably defeats the evil Richard. The play ends with a gloriously choreographed battle between the forces of Richard and Richmond. But although the choreography, music and set are spectacular, the real engine that moves Richard III to success is the solid, intense, and complementary performances of the three Richards...
...seems odd that Osborn would first condemn extreme conservatives as "backward" and liberals as "self-righteous" and then ask that we all abandon the intelligent discourse that comes with a broad political spectrum to follow blindly the dogma of these extremes...
...sordid history of self-righteous paternalism, and its policy towards Cuba is no exception. Our longstanding trade embargo against our Communist neighbors to the south is a prime example of our formalized policy of starving people whose dictators we don't like. We have assumed, but not universally earned the right to be puritanical in our dealings with other nations...