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Word: evil (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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Viewed from this vantage point, or rather lack-of-vantage point, the game was stripped of mere score and time constraints (I couldn't read the scoreboard, anyhow). Instead, good battled evil in a decidedly uneven match...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Silly Putty | 2/11/1987 | See Source »

...dropped my carry-on bag and started to talk with these two cold warriors. I had no evil intention, if that is possible for a representative of the evil empire. But at that point something unexpected happened. There came an ominous buzzing from my carry-on bag. The two warriors, eyes popping, ran from the waiting area. Others heard it and did the same. I saw a policeman dive under a bench, and the room was suddenly empty except...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Poet's View of Glasnost | 2/9/1987 | See Source »

...manufacturers. For the seventh consecutive year Tokyo announced that it would continue a program of voluntary export quotas on cars destined for the U.S. This year's ceiling of 2.3 million vehicles remained the same as in the two previous years. Japanese automakers termed the government restraints a necessary evil to avoid a flare-up of U.S. protectionist sentiments...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Socking It to Imports | 2/9/1987 | See Source »

...night world, a place of sorcerers and omens, in which dreams of blood mean money on the way and the hooting of an owl portends miscarriage. One day he drops in on a friend to find the boy spouting gibberish while a cross-legged magician tries to exorcise his "evil spirit" with the branch of a star-fruit tree...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Ghost Stories Came True: CAMBODIAN WITNESS | 2/9/1987 | See Source »

...Saturday or Sunday nights beginning next fall. A mixture of live action and computer animation, Captain Power -- much like preteen action cartoons -- takes place in a futuristic outer-space setting where a crew of good guys (and a token gal) engage in endless scrapes with the forces of evil...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Zap,Zap! You're Dead, Lord Dread! | 2/9/1987 | See Source »

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