Word: evil
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...sort of new political monster, one afflicted with hatred so malignant that only murder on a grand scale can satisfy it. Who really knows how many citizens --a dozen? a hundred?--feel so passionately that their government is the Great Satan that they would resort to such evil? This much is certain: the courage of the bereaved and the heroism of the rescuers in Oklahoma City are the stuff of true patriotism...
...OKLAHOMA THEY'RE USED TO TWISTERS, those ugly storms that arrive across the prairie to savage the towns, tear them apart and leave, tossing houses behind them. To live there means understanding that nature is not evil, only whimsical. Human nature, on the other hand, proved incomprehensible at 9:02 Wednesday morning. The blast came at the very height of the morning rush. A red-orange fireball lit the sky, and the north side of the building dissolved. The carcass left standing looked monstrous, drooling cable and concrete onto the plaza below, huffing gas and smoke and dust into...
...read it through a few times, then he asked everyone else to leave. Said an official who had participated in the meeting: "He just sat there by himself and collected his thoughts." A few minutes later, Clinton spoke with a mixture of anger and empathy. He labeled the bombers "evil cowards" and vowed they would be found and "treated like killers." He ended simply and with quiet power. "Meanwhile," he assured the nation, "we will be about our work...
...ethics society. Can anyone say "oxymoron"? Now, we at Dartboard will readily admit that premeds don't have a monopoly on unethical behavior. The pre-law and pre-investment banking students are pretty evil too. But at least they're honest about being sleazy. Unlike the pre-meds, they don't try to hide their sliminess and greed behind a veneer of altruism...
...late is that Dimitri has come not to steal his wife, but to conduct him to prison, humiliation and death. The genius of director Mikhalkov's film, saysTIME film critic Richard Schickel, is its "refusal to foreshadow, for it makes the outcome more chilling. This is how evil often comes to us, masked in geniality, on a day when the sun is shining...