Word: evil
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...underscores the fact that the Kirov's best ballerina is still Altynai Asylmuratova, 34. In personal beauty and musicality, she is exquisitely refined, but she dances with a boldness that is thrilling. From the moment she leaps onstage, there is no question that this supernatural bird will conquer the evil sorcerer. No mannerisms, no attempt to extract fire out of ice. Many ballerinas have a grand attack. Asylmuratova has magic...
...ISSUE OF DEPICTED EVIL IS CERTAINLY not as cut-and-dried as both sides of the argument make it out to be. Art reflects society, to be sure, and ours is a troubled society. But art is an imaginative instrument, and the imagination that fuels our actions can help us overcome society's troubles. What raises a product of entertainment to the level of a work of art is in part the strength of its treatment of human action, good and evil. Great art uses descriptive and prescriptive means to depict morality. Pure depiction in art has no force; pure...
...prison. Duran was convicted of trying to kill President Clinton when hesprayed the White House with bullets last October. Prosecutors had asked for a life sentence for Duran, who had argued that, in a fit of paranoid schizophrenia, he thought he had been chosen to shoot and kill an evil "mist" that was enveloping the White House. U.S. District Judge Charles Richey said the sentence, which includes no chance of parole, was sufficient both to punish him and to discourage others from similar attacks. Duran, sober and contrite in court today, told the judge he plans to earn a college...
...abominable. It is, however, particularly disturbing at such a time as graduation for debasement to sully the celebration of accomplishment. I cannot escape the waves of bitter frustration I feel. Some may argue that it is time to remove my rose-colored glasses and admit the existence of evil in the world. This passive attitude, however, is not acceptable for me. Alexandra E. Delaney...
Reunited in their 40s, they are a lively bunch. But Conroy, who has thrived by writing in the first-person portentous, burdens his already preoccupied characters with the bloody 20th century. Attempts to relate the madness of Vietnam to Hitler's evil are loopy. So is some of Conroy's rhetoric. "Through no preference or selection of our own," begins one chapter, "the graduating class of 1966, in high schools all over America, found ourselves cast like dice across the velvet-covered gambling tables of history ... the best we could do was cover our eyes and ears and genitalia like...