Word: evil
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...sense a realistic film. It is not modernist camp either. Lynch believes every bit as much in the redemptive power of teen love -- with families miraculously restored and two kids kissing to the crooning of a wedding-chapel organ -- as he does in the force of evil. He and his film will surely be reviled, but as an experiment in expanding cinema's dramatic and technical vocabulary, Blue Velvet demands respect...
With headlines announcing that "Royal Di-vorce stuns U.K.," "Wapner elevated to Supreme Court," and "Liberty's evil twin turns 50," the 750,000 plastic wrapped copies will go on sale for $2.50 each at 90,000 locations across the country, including Safeway and Cumberland Farms outlets...
...country, it seems, is awash with drugs. Fine white powder pours past the border patrol like sand through a sieve. On busy street corners and in urban parks, pushers murmur, "Crack it up, crack it up," like some kind of evil incantation, bewitching susceptible kids and threatening society's sense of order and security. The public is outraged; opinion polls show that drug abuse has surpassed economic woes and the threat of real war as the nation's No. 1 concern. For a nation whose penchant for righteous crusades can surpass even its tolerance for libertine individualism, the crackdown against...
...sickening that any young people would think the University was a source of evil. I still can't understand it," he adds...
Panelists agreed that our current policies and rhetoric can often harm the negotiation process. "There are better ways to build a relationship than for us to call them an evil empire and for them to call us a pornographic society. It may be perfectly true, but it's not very constructive," said Fisher...