Word: evil
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...lines. Further muddying the issue of whether a character like this should be a Congressman is the reappearance of Sarah Williams, who, dead or alive, certainly comes to haunt the candidate. Spencer, 40, struggles with an ambitious question: How can people work for good in a world of evil? Unfortunately, with friends like Fielding and Sarah, the causes of righteousness and coherent narratives seem curiously irrelevant...
...remote, the quests too familiar, the special effects too rudimentary--no laser blades here, just an endless arsenal of singing swords. Nor did the heroes and heroines of these chivalrous tales have much vitality; they were as pure as toothpaste, and as sexy. How could the Forces of Evil defeat these perfect folk? And how could the modern moviegoer care? Only Conan the Barbarian made much box-office noise, perhaps because it had Attila Schwarzenegger punching out entire races as if he were a Dark Ages "Duke" Wayne...
...coquettish glances and sweet mischief. Her beau, Jack o' the Green (Tom Cruise), is a swain of the woodland working class. When Lili touches one of the magic white unicorns--can't have your bucolic fantasy without some unicorns--the Lord of Darkness (Tim Curry) begins to work his evil alchemy. And the film, which has been reclining under glass, content to be admired like pictures at an exhibition, comes to seductive life...
...long as in doing so it does not violate its academic obligations. Otherwise, academics in this country will fall to the level to which many so-called scholars have fallen in totalitarian regimes. But one of the many dangers that neo-conservative ideologues overlook, in their crusade against the "evil empire," is the tendency to have our ends justify any means, and thus the erasing of the differences between the ethical standards a liberal society must maintain, and those of its enemies. Stanley Hoffmann Chairman Center for European Studies
...blind lawyer who uses his secret "radar sense" to prowl the rooftops as DD) became a real character, a pathological vigilante with a conscience. Miller was questioning the superhero, the great convention of the comic book form: the citizen, gifted by fate, who selflessly puts on longjohns to fight evil. At least the villains use their laser-beam eyes for material gain--what do the heroes...