Word: righteousness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Harris and Klebold's killing rampage was a strange sort of gift for our morally righteous society that continuously rants about the detrimental effects of violent video games and TV shows. What better way to prove the necessity of censorship than two all-American boys caught up in nihilistic video games and Marilyn Manson that decide to shoot 12 of their classmates and try to blow up their school...
With the advent of moderation has come the extinction of the true liberal. There are a few remaining specimens, Ralph Nader among them, distinguished by their self-righteous sermons and slightly communistic tendencies. There were days when having your own copy of Mao's Little Red Book was a mark of integrity, instead of a badge of shame. These bleeding-heart liberals as they are now disparagingly called, never hesitated to remind us that the most important issues were not how much money we were making or which cell phone matched our wardrobe. While often misguided and sometimes silly...
...with his Yugoslav war. He was nearly three weeks deep into the air campaign by then, but for two hours he listened to participants at a White House conference chew over a familiar topic, "The Perils of Indifference." As Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel spoke passionately about Franklin Roosevelt's righteous leadership in a war against evil, Clinton leaned forward, totally absorbed. "You could tell he was thinking about his own war in Kosovo," says a friend who was there, adding, "The President and Hillary really pay attention to Elie." So when Wiesel concluded that he was proud that "this time...
...DiCaprio daydreams of strutting into his homeroom in a long black coat and gunning down his hated teacher and half the kids. The Rage: Carrie 2 (now in theaters) has jocks viciously taunting outsiders until one girl kills herself by jumping off the high school roof and another wreaks righteous revenge by using her telekinetic powers to pulverize a couple dozen kids...
Having drifted into each other's orbit, the two soon experience outside pulls. Isa acquires a morbid interest in the comatose girl, whose tragedy allows awed and then self-righteous absorption. Marie clings far too long to a rich, womanising slickster (Gregoire Colin as Chris) who sees a needfulness he can prise open into a raw gaping masochistic dependence. Reading faces, you might judge Isa the worse off, with chipped-tooth and scar-bifurcated eyebrow, but you realize nervewracking and nervous Marie has borne a more interior brand of wear and tear...