Word: evil
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Only two characters seem strongly moved by the events of the film: the aforementioned prosecutor and the evil general, who is so consistently irate that he looks more like M*A*S*H*'s Colonel Potter on a back day than a man struggling with the responsibilities of authority in the face of bloody warfare...
...Cairo. For her, family planning was not a global issue but a personal, practical matter. Getting a checkup last week at a health clinic in the rural town of Sinnuris, Ahmad laughed when a nurse asked if she was pregnant. "No," she replied, "we know pregnancy is an evil now." She and her husband, Sohad explained, had decided to stop after two children because of the expense of raising a large family. Ahmad's 20-year-old daughter Nadia also has two children, and she too says she wants no more. In fact, the only difference in their family-planning...
This band sees the world in polarities. The answers to life's big questions are always true or false, yes or no -- "all of the above" is not an option. At the start of the album, a booming voice declares, "Right versus wrong, good versus evil, God versus the Devil. Which side you on?" In fact, the listener, swept up in the band's passion and sound, can't help being on Public Enemy's side throughout the record as Chuck takes on the American Patriarchal Military Industrial Racist Complex, Inc. On Hitler Day, he attacks the idea of having...
When the Italian author Primo Levi was in Auschwitz, a guard told him, "Hier ist kein warum." (Here is no why.) He was right. That was the terror, the mystery and the evil...
...carefully set stage, away from the everyday world. Phillips' young women not only confront the dangers hidden behind trees and lurking in deep pools, but they also must grapple with complex family lives that are ever present in the narrative. In Phillips' depictions of both city and country life, evil is something children are pushed into by corrupt adults. Buddy's physical humiliation at the hands of his father is compared to the emotional bruises that divorce and neglect inflict on the campers...