Word: moralizing
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...absolutely, 100 percent not real. In fact, "The West Wing" is a preternaturally rosy version of the political scene: The vice president has a full head of hair (sorry, Al), the press corps is nosy but humane, the President is tortured by intellectual and moral dilemmas, yet firmly unmoved by pledges of money or sex. So where is our passion for "reality" programming...
...Brent Bozell III, chairman of the Media Research Center, described what happened next: "After the interview ended the camera inadvertently came back on the unsuspecting Gumbel... Though the audio was turned off halfway through the sentence, a sneering Gumbel let it be known what he thought of Knight's moral values: 'What a f---ing idiot...
...children of "the light." They have allowed robust expansions as agents of social mobility, both vertical and horizontal. They have opened America to its imagination. They have invited exploitation of the natural conditions around them and of themselves--dammed up, dried up. They have allowed for collective and individual moral choice: kill or don't kill. Enslave or set everyone free...
...article "Is Technology Moving Too Fast?" Stewart Brand wrote, "Radical new technologies are often seen as moral threats by conservative and religious groups." Indeed, many religious myths have depended on static dogmas for their survival. As science and technology move forward at an ever accelerating pace, the faith of the true believer is stretched to the limit as, one by one, the sacred mysteries of life are peeled away, making it ever more difficult to hide from the terrifying truth that all we have in this universe is ourselves. JAMES M. RIDGWAY JR. Tucson, Ariz...
...meant to be a trial." But in this mini-series, written by David W. Rintels and directed by Yves Simoneau, instruction and entertainment make a pretty good match. Baldwin nicely tamps down his natural charisma to get at a good man's frustration in abiding by the stern moral rules that he set for the tribunal. In melodrama, of course, the villains always win; they're the ones who get to strut. Thus Brian Cox, as Goering, has his drollest mass-murderer role since he played Hannibal Lecter in the 1986 Manhunter; and Herbert Knaup (of Run, Lola...