Word: benightedness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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The rest of the time we are left in no doubt about anything. The churchmen are saintly in their lack of guile; the Indians are all joyous children, born to be victimized; the settlers are political schemers and oppressive brutes. You can smell the concluding massacre coming for hours. The...
BRIDESHEAD BENIGHTED
Putting the names Brideshead and Waugh on the same dust jacket may be inspired marketing. But Auberon is Evelyn's son, and this book has nothing to do with nostalgic memories of aristocrats toting Teddy bears. Brideshead Benighted offers, instead, roughly a decade's worth of the author's columns...
Curry was the mad scientist of The Rocky Horror Picture Show, resplendent in black satin and bad manners. Here he is a figure of more majestic maleficence. Sprawling in the lubricious gloom of his lair, he looks like a huge Naugahyde goat demon who has been flayed and candied, then...
Kampuchea offers a more extreme example. The anti-Vietnamese (hence anti- Soviet) resistance there includes the Khmer Rouge forces of Pol Pot, the deposed tyrant of that benighted country. He might be a pawn on the international chessboard; but, having presided over the murder of as many as 2 million...