Word: evil
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...deep-seated anglophilia born. His newest creation, Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery, is clearly from a place far, far away from Wayne's World. He's a swinging '60s English fashion photographer by day and secret agent by night, who has himself frozen, as does his nemesis, Dr. Evil, also played by Myers. When Evil returns in 1997, so must Powers, along with his 1967 sexual mores and bad teeth. "The English won the war," says Myers of the many dental jokes in the movie, "and lost their teeth...
...Modern World. But by the fall of 1987 he was suffering internal torment, compounded by a dreadful event in his personal life (a friend killed her son and then herself). "I was clinically depressed and spiritually in a very dark place," he says. "Fifteen years of studying evil was not an entirely healthy thing...
...Klingender--the tradition of English caricature, the mordant images of Hogarth and Gillray; they are reflected in such paintings as Anschluss--Alice in Wonderland, 1942, with its trio of figures, the appeaser Neville Chamberlain, a German soldier and an Austrian Catholic bishop, imitating the Chinese monkeys that see no evil, hear no evil and speak no evil. And the ever alert Salvador Dali managed to include a number of proto-Pop American images in his pictures when working in the U.S. Painted just after Hiroshima and Nagasaki, his Melancholy Atomic and Uranic Idyll, 1945, has a bomber...
...celebrating a man who ruled like a dictator? China's leaders may come and go, but the oppression of the Chinese people lives on. Let us not lend prestige to evil. TOM DOWNES Encino, California...
DIED. FRED ZINNEMANN, 89, three-time Oscar-winning director; in London. From 1950s screen classics High Noon and From Here to Eternity through A Man for All Seasons in 1966, he demonstrated an abiding concern with the battle between good and evil, as well as a mastery of eliciting sensitive, finely etched performances from actors...