Word: badness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...German military cemetery visit wasn't a bad first. Anyone who has torn his eyes away from a Superman comic book to see the film Das Boot (The Boat) knows that German, yes German, can be sympathetic character. The him is about a German submarine crew and the fighting they have to endure-both against the enemy and against themselves. There are bad Nazis on board, but most of the crew are apolitical, beer-guzzling men of integnily who destroy boats because they are told to destroy boats. They don't enjoy it, and are just as atraid of being...
...cynical wake of Vietnam, modern observers have a tendency to have a relativistic view of the aftermath of a war. In Vietnam it was hard to tell just who were the bad guys and who were the good guys. In war against Germany, there can be no such conclusion. The number of innocent people persecuted by the Germans and the member of Jews tortured and murdered by the German genocidal machine testify to the evil of the German cause...
Epps says using freshmen as runners isn't such a bad idea. "Oh, yes, I think it would be good for upperclassmen to send to Elsie's for a late-night snack," he jests...
...Bad, bad King Claudius indeed looks sleazy, but in a pedestrian way, less like some evil know who kills his brother than some gauche Miami tourist who wears a lavender polyester suit to a polo match with the Queens. Christopher Keyser makes Claudius look so banally evil for so long that his final confession of guilt rings hollow...
...there you have it. I've sunk as low as a critic can go. I've used (sob!) a superlative, a commendation that will probably condemn me to the seventh ring of Rex Reed's private hell. Too bad: Thompson's Berklee show, and the man, deserve nothing less