Word: evil
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...applies a thoughtful interpretation to his work. For him Pericles symbolizes modern American man. His character becomes a latter 20th-century well-to-do Everyman in the odyssey of life. Pericles's court the corporate boardroom and his nobles its directors. Dissatisfied with business life and wary of the evil it can wreak, he leaves Easy Street to live adventure and try his fortune. After ups and downs, he finds his greatest solace in having his own family. Affairs of business (the board of directors wants a new chairman) drive him away again, and in that journey his family...
SOME HARVARD PRIMA DONNAS used to grouse that Sellars treated them like his hobby, puppets. Sellars' novel device in Pericles actually does just that--turns actors into puppets, using plastic masks on the evil characters. The technique produces an eerie, sinister effect; the masks, sometimes grotesque, sometimes animal, sometimes human, look frighteningly real. Though without masks, Pericles, Thaisa and Marina are equally un rounded as characters; when Lysimachus removes his mask repenting of his past ways, the easy gimmick becomes a tour de force...
...true, in Never Say Never Again. Since he is incarnated (actually, of course, reincarnated) by Sean Connery, now 53, the film's promising premise is that the free world's all-pro free safety has lost a step or two in his duel with the forces of evil, and requires a rehabilitating stay at a health spa before he can once again be licensed to kill in his formerly youthful and exuberant manner...
...onset of World War II. In his early 30s, Golding came of age. "One had one's nose rubbed in the human condition," he recalls. He witnessed the sinking of the Bismarck, took part in the Normandy invasion and decided that the human race was inherently evil...
...breaking of a pair of eyeglasses means . . ."), and the heavily underscored message of inescapable depravity is attractive to those who want no responsibility for the state of the world. According to the Swedish Academy, "Golding inveighs against those who think it is the political or other systems that create evil. Evil springs from the depth of man himself-it is the wickedness in human beings that creates the evil systems or that changes what from the beginning is, or could be, good into something iniquitous and destructive...