Word: evil
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...hybrids, but for the purposes of this editorial, two groupings will suffice). Government classes tend to fall into the former category. The essential skill required for these courses and the primary ability for which reward is distributed is articulation--oral and written. In talking classes, flexing is a necessary evil for some and a way of life and success, glory and narcissism for others. I have seen students in these classes engage concurrently in monologues masquerading as a conversation...
Captain Jean-Luc Picard is building up a head of righteous steam about the Borg, the evil race that once enslaved Picard and has now infested the Starship Enterprise with plans to do something very naughty to Planet Earth. Well, the Captain will not abandon ship. He will face up to the Borg, he says. "And I will make them pay for what they've done." As Patrick Stewart delivers this line with a majestic ferocity worthy of a Royal Shakespeare Company alumnus, the audience gapes in awe at a special effect more imposing than any ILM digital doodle. Here...
...these ideas were banal nearly 30 years ago, they seem even more so in the context of today's habitually ugly headlines. It is curious, then, why anyone would tackle a remake of the film without having come up with anything more insightful to say about the nature of evil. Nevertheless, In Cold Blood the mini-series arrives this week...
Here is a triangulation, a sort of syllogism, that seemed to be at work: Except for evil itself (if you believe in evil, as Chambers did), what mystery is deeper than that of betrayal? What betrayal is deeper, and more decisive, than suicide? What deeper political or social suicide can a man commit than to betray his country...
...plot, Space Jam is akin to the new Star Trek picture: evil aliens (here the Nerdlucks) try to steal the souls (the talent) of the galaxy's most complex life forms (NBA stars Charles Barkley, Patrick Ewing, Muggsy Bogues, Larry Johnson and token white geek Shawn Bradley). If Jordan doesn't renounce his infatuation with baseball and agree to play a basketball game against the aliens' Monstar team, civilization will be imperiled. Not to mention some very fat Nike contracts...