Word: evil
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...basically the same: there are a bunch of women locked in a small, dirty space; some of them are lesbians; they are all rude and nasty; they fight with the guards; the guards fight back; the guards get involved with them and/or try to rape them; the warden is evil; through the whole trying experience, someone dies, and the rest of them become better people and closer friends through all of it. Yawn...
...character was insane. Of the men (all of whom are extremely good-looking), only Jay Boyer, who played the 16 year-old deck hand Tommy, stood out. His transformation from a shy innocent to a more mature, jaded sailor was convincing. Steve Harper's Sarge, while sufficiently creepy and evil, was hard to take and somewhat annoying...
...general public: while the Harvard and University clubs of Boston and New York both have similar halls by McKim, Mead & White, neither are open for the edification of the public. To destroy this structure would be to sever Americans from their own history, one of the most pernicious and evil of undertakings...
Notions about the banality of evil are severely tested by Hasselbach and his former comrades. A repulsively fascinating character named "Bendix" digs up World War II battlefields so that he can commune with the skeletons of fallen German soldiers. Clerks and metal workers by day turn into street brawlers and arsonists at night. For nonviolent recreation some play a kind of anti-Semitic Can You Top This: a gaunt Nazi nostalgist goes by the nickname "Auschwitz"; a rich Austrian patron of the movement paints a Star of David inside his toilet bowl; a distributor of Holocaust-denial material jocularly offers...
...free the capo, or she and the boy will be killed. The Teacher wears his psychopathy on his sleeve as plainly as Annie wears her vulnerability, and he is also one windy dude. For a while you think maybe his plan is to bore her into submission to his evil will. ("All right. All right. I'll do anything. Just shut up about...