Word: moralizers
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...dark, they knew it was time to leave. Now, three years after Anderson's death, he remains ambivalent about another major documentary project. He says Anderson herself, whose voice, analytical and wry, runs through the book, was having doubts about observational documentaries before her death: "The whole moral thing about 1990 being a bad year for the Ganiga, but a good year for us," as Connolly puts it. Readers of Making 'Black Harvest' might harbor a similar thought: that it was out of Connolly's own great loss that such a compelling book was born...
...reminder of our vestigial selves, of how humankind has rationalized catastrophe through most of its history. The whims of nature were either God's will or our fault. Happily, the two institutions that arose from these explanations-religion and government-proved to be civilizing impulses. Religion provided the moral basis for human interaction; government provided the forum for common action against external threats...
...writer Eric Van Looy eight years to mount, so patiently and intelligently builds out from its gimmicky premise. To be sure, it contains more than enough colorfully staged capital crimes to satisfy its more bloodthirsty viewers, but those events take place within a densely layered plot and moral climate. The hired killer, Ledda (Jan Decleir), is a consummate and seemingly phlegmatic professional, now secretly shaken by the knowledge that his mental lights are dimming...
...weirdly out of touch. His smirk came back; he stumbled into jargon like SPRo, the nickname for the Strategic Petroleum Reserve and said things that seemed patently out of touch, including the now-infamous remark that no one could have foreseen the levee breaking. His inability to see any moral distinction between those who steal water and those who loot TV sets seemed odd-and at odds with local politicians like New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin and Louisiana Senator Mary Landrieu. Then where was the call for sacrifice? While southern governors like Georgia Republican Sonny Perdue worried publicly about...
...shirt. "I have an open mind, I hope he does too." But others don't want the Pope to give any ground. Derek Smith, 23, a student at St. Thomas College in Houston, likes that Benedict "doesn't mince words." "It's what we young people need. There are moral absolutes, and they need to be enforced, otherwise you have anarchy...