Word: moralizing
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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Since Election Day, Lieberman has been the recount absolutist. The moral certainty that drove some of his Senate colleagues to distraction--when he voted his conscience instead of his party--has provided crucial ballast here. Al Gore, under pressure known to change his story, his message, his demeanor and his clothes, has resisted the weight of opinion in favor of getting it over rather than getting it correct. This has meant that Lieberman, considered a happy St. Bernard in 12 years in the Senate--"as moral, decent and honorable a man as I've known there," said Senator John McCain...
...ROBERT KENNEDY Evan Thomas calls his superb biography "the story of an unpromising boy who died as he was becoming a great man." Bobby's well-documented life and legend are re-examined here with moral clarity, psychological subtlety and a bracing dramatic pace. 3 A HEARTBREAKING WORK OF STAGGERING GENIUS Dave Eggers tricks out his riveting memoir with an ironic title and plenty of literary gamesmanship, but the story he tells is indeed heartbreaking: the death of his parents and his subsequent guardianship of his younger brother. His book shows how laughter is sometimes the only medicine...
...ends in moral, political and legal stalemate - resolved by a sliver in the U.S. Supreme Court. I could argue the Gore case with perfect coherence and logic; I could argue the Bush case with equal coherence and logic...
...somehow, the Santa myth seemed of a different order. Perhaps because he was somehow enmeshed in the solemn and serious Christmas holiday, or perhaps because Santa was portrayed as a puppet-master, controlling all-important material disbursement through an ambiguous moral system predicated on Orwellian observational techniques, Santa was someone who it was difficult to deny...
...though, Vertical Limit consists mainly of variations on a theme. If your tolerance for seeing lots of people hanging by their fingertips from icy cliffs is high, you may enjoy the film. On the other hand, when its principals are not so engaged, they are talking through painfully obvious moral dilemmas stated with laughable earnestness in the overwrought script by Robert King and Terry Hayes...