Word: evil
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Crimson's staff editorial (Oct. 14) characterized Chairman Jiang as "an evil man, leading a truly evil empire." Having spent two years in the so-called "evil empire," I feel that such a description is both inappropriate and counter-productive. Jiang's China is currently the fastest growing economy in the world. [Economist, August 17th, 1996.] One result of this economic prowess is a dramatic increase in the living standard for one-fifth of the world's population. While the government's actions at Tiananmen Square in June 1989 insult our American sense of human rights, our definition of those...
...sense that your editorial was based on a rather narrow view of morality and society, one based solely on our culture. I also did not get the sense that your editorial was well researched. Instead of relying on emotionally stirring words such as "evil," "chattel" and "murder," you might have presented a better argument. I am not trying to paint China as "good," and I certainly am not trying to make America look bad; I am simply asking that you be more realistic in the future...
...accompanying dissent are fine examples of the reckless demonization of China by well-meaning but ill-informed commentators. Although the Chinese leadership needs to be reminded that its conduct sometimes falls far short of what we call civilized behavior, to categorize President Jiang Zemin as "an evil man" and China as "a truly evil empire" smacks of over kill...
...French lion's growl. In its undiluted form, film noir (named after Serie Noir, a French publisher's line of crime novels) is tart and murky, like cheap Parisian coffee, and as mean as any Marseilles street a gangster could skulk down. These dank moral tales are about the evil that taints everyone--especially the hero, who must end up dead or disgraced. This disqualifies Hollywood neo-noir like L.A. Confidential, where at the fade-out two guys and a gal grin as if they'd just seen Singin' in the Rain. In true noir there is no reprieve...
...Evil can be passive, like Albert's, or gross, like Coral's in the Mexican Deep Crimson. Coral (Regina Orozco), a nurse, is fat, lazy, a bust at everything but loving Nico (Daniel Gimenez Cacho). Movie-mad Coral wants a man like Charles Boyer. Well, Nico does wear a toupee. And like Boyer in Gaslight, he is a thief of women's affections and inheritances. Coral, at first a mark, proves his accomplice and inspiration. Dumping her two kids in an orphanage and posing as Nico's sister, she prods him to romance, rob and kill his ladies; then...