Word: evil
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Evil has many faces in Nicky Silver's new iron-toothed comedy, but who is Silver's real devil? There are at least four strong candidates by the time the bodies stop piling up. There is the father, Arthur Duncan (Dennis Creaghan) who neglected his son, slept around to spite his wife and molested his daughter, Emma, throughout her childhood, leaving her short and long term memories permanently repressed. Or maybe the mother Grace Duncan (Marian Mercer) who molested her son, Todd (Christopher Collet), driving him to the street where he contracts AIDS. Or for that matter, the family friend...
...midst of this profound moral confusion, the Haiti crisis came like a test from on high. Here were good and evil laid out in black and white, or rather, black and creamy mulatto: the pastel luxury of Petionville vs. the dark, bottomless misery of the shantytowns. And in Jean-Bertrand Aristide, here was as Christ-like a figure as ever headed a state: devout, dedicated to the poor, and celibate on top of all that. Yet from Clinton's flip-flops to Carter's flirtation with Cedras, we dithered shamefully. Even after the troops had arrived, it was unclear...
...Dartboard don't mean to be flip and to put only evil ideas into impressionable young heads. We've got some good ones, too, that will provide entertainment for the members of the Cambridge community. It's called streaking...
...Peninsula, not a magazine I cite often, by a self-identified white Roman Catholic who was on The Crimson board, agrees with me. He plainly states that "...because the Harvard Crimson doesn't like Dr. Counter, the Crimson interpreted the remarks in his letter as something sinister and evil, when a much more reasonable explanation beckoned...
...never regarded the press as anything more than a necessary evil," Breneman writes in the editorial...