Word: evil
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...daytime soap operas are on network TV, just more than half the number that were airing in 1970. One reason for the falloff is the profusion of Oprah-style talk shows, which are able to serve up story lines about real-life family traumas, drug-abuse problems and evil boyfriends on a daily basis. During the past months, moreover, the soaps have been hit by their toughest competition yet: that interminable suspense tale, featuring a handsome former football player charged with murdering his wife...
...Braveheart lacks, though not for want of trying by Patrick McGoohan. As the English King, Edward Longshanks, he sneers realpolitik as well as George Sanders, Basil Rathbone or Henry Kissinger ever did. But he's not around as much as he should be-especially compared with Tim Roth's evil Energizer Bunny, who powers Rob Roy with his capering snottiness...
...other problem with Braveheart is its unhappy ending. After all that time, you want and expect evil to be confounded. What you get instead is the hero being tortured to death. The suspense is this: Will he crack, cry out in pain, thus robbing posterity of an inspiring example of masochism-sorry, heroism? Come on. That's Mel Gibson the wild horses are trying to pull apart. Of course he's going to die stoically. Everybody knows that a non-blubbering clause is standard in all movie stars' contracts. Too bad there isn't one banning self-indulgence when they...
Apparently Landry was one of "a group of men and women who thought that there was such a thing as evil in the world [really?}, and that this evil was extending its dark tendrils even within Harvard Yard." Homosexuality? No. Actually Landry refers to the notion that objective truth doesn't exist...
Politicians ranging from the occupant of the Oval Office to the local dog-catcher agree on one issue: it's high time to put some additional teeth into the laws of the land to prevent evil assassins from committing their heinous acts. Nonsense! I am confident that sufficient laws are in place to incarcerate these criminals, when convicted through due process, for the remainder of their lives...