Word: evil
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...budding writers that included William Gibson, John Shirley and Greg Bear. The cyberpunks, as they called themselves, were obsessed with all things digital, and in the '80s managed somehow to reverse pop culture's aesthetic field, turning slouching, sullen '60s youth who hated the system and thought technology was evil into slouching, sullen '90s youth who hate the system and think technology will bring it down...
...when he learned who else was speaking and when he realized what the organization stood for. He said "he would never knowingly share the platform with someone affiliated with white supremacist and anti-Semitic organizations" because he "live[s] by the maxim, 'Avoid the very appearance of evil...
...Rossini and Balzac, vintners of Mouton and Lafite--was shadowed by a vicious anti-Semitic twin, the view that culminated in Hitler's speeches about "the rapacity of a Rothschild." The family became an all-purpose and surreal villain. Karl Marx vilified the Rothschilds as a quintessence of capitalist evil. One contemporary conspiracy theorist argued that the Rothschilds "arranged the murder of President Lincoln" and, later on, financed the rise of Hitler as a bulwark against the Soviet Union...
Novelist Edna Buchanan's Garden of Evil will be published next year. She won the Pulitzer Prize...
...candidates for cruel bosses were women, mostly because so few bosses are women. But Leona Helmsley, the Queen of Mean, played evil stepmom to all the employees of her husband, New York City real estate mogul Harry Helmsley. She fired employees at a whim (one for taking an apple from the kitchen while working through lunch) and had that rich-person disease of being paranoid that everyone was stealing from her; meanwhile, she was convicted of tax evasion. Even one of her lawyers called her a "tough bitch...