Word: evil
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...effort has not made an impression on the public. Since the trial is not televised, McVeigh is more like an evil cipher, and the proceedings have not been the talk of lunchrooms across America. "Some people follow it," says Everett White, 55, of Pueblo, Colo. "You see it in the papers, but it's not like that other one, with...what's his name?" As for McVeigh's guilt, says Mark Collins, city manager of Gunnison, Colo.: "Jeez, you think there's a question there...
...done so often, Garc?a M?rquez makes the fantastic seem ordinary. At one point Marina Montoya asks her cold-blooded keepers to kneel with her and pray. They do, each to the same God for the same reasons: to protect their lives and deliver them from evil. It is a classic Garc?a M?rquez instance -- comic, tragic and all too human...
...identifying this or that disturbing factor that others ignore. Now, however, I face a real problem: I can't find any of those factors. Each morning the paper brings such encouraging news about inflation or crime or unemployment that I almost expect to see the headline GOOD PEOPLE REWARDED; EVIL ONES TO SUFFER. The worry monger in me finds no satisfaction in the international pages either. The democracy kudzu spreads relentlessly, and while there are troubles, none compares with the risk of imminent global incineration. Then: the Cuban missile crisis. Now: the Caribbean summit. After so carefully developing the habit...
David Gelernter is professor of computer science at Yale and author of Drawing Life: Good, Evil and Mailbombs in Modern America, to be published in September by the Free Press...
...whole production: the rapid-fire non sequiturs were played perfectly. Their psychological problems--derived from disastrous relationships with their fathers--reach a peak as they address Colonel Sanders' picture on a Kentucky Fried Chicken Bucket as if it were their fathers. The two give the box the evil eye--"Charlie's" instruction for killing someone--in the most hilarious moment of their laugh-filled scene. John Hinckley is much more somber, as a disturbed artist tyring to write a song to "Jodie" (Foster), the object of his obession. His attempt to assassinate Ronald Reagan is comically depicted by his shooting...