Word: evil
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...audience members cannot help longing to live in this clapboard paradise. . Until, that is, they find out what it is really like. The corruption beneath the surface in Blue Velvet is trendily psychosexual. In All My Sons it is economic and political. At the root of the play's evil is the tribal impulse that allows a man to think only of himself and his family rather than his duties as a citizen of the world. When a machine-shop owner whose patching over of defective cylinder heads sent 21 pilots to their deaths voices the repentant opinion that they...
...initial speculation saw it as primarily a propaganda stunt for foreign consumption. The press corps in Moscow reminded everybody that the Gulags are still full and dissidents who are Soviet Jews have a hard time emigrating. Then came the op-ed page experts, asserting that change in the Evil Empire is only a mirage and warning against gullibility, as if the Moscow press corps -- its movements constantly circumscribed by the KGB -- does not know there is a cold...
...froze. This was the most terrifying sound a struggling writer could hear, the voice of sadism, of evil dreams, of a pain and suffering that rivals the heartbreak of psoriasis. The voice of an editor...
...Evil Dead, Part...
There is not much to be said for the other performances, since the other characters are all types, one-note foils for Mandel to play off of. Besides the aforementioned Evil Brother and Idealistic Scientist, there is the Boozing Wife, the Senile Cat Lady, the Crusty Backwoodsman, the Angry Neighbor, the Venal Lawyer, and the Stuck-up In-laws. Walk is basically Mandel's showpiece, and no one is allowed to upstage...