Word: crueler
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...understand why, as his mind begins to clear, he begins to wonder about the quality of his nursing care. Most of us have been there too, realizing we are utterly dependent upon the kindness of strangers. What do we really know about them? What if their kindness hides a crueler agenda? Take Annie Wilkes (Kathy Bates), for example. She seems a typical nursing type -- cheerful and bustling. But there is something, well, menacing about her size, her startling outbursts of bad temper and her excessive enthusiasm for Misery Chastain, heroine of the series of bodice rippers Sheldon has been turning...
...tyrants go, Ceausescu was surely crueler, more methodical and more blood-soaked than Noriega, who often came off as a tin-pot dictator. Yet the similarities were striking. Like many of their kind, both described themselves as reformers, Ceausescu as a leader independent of Moscow, Noriega as a Panamanian nationalist. The U.S. was not above using both when they served its special purposes. Richard Nixon welcomed Ceausescu's help in negotiating the first opening to China; under Ronald Reagan, the CIA sought Noriega's assistance in aiding Nicaragua's contras. But in Ceausescu's 24 years of iron rule...