Word: evil
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...experienced sexual intercourse by the time they reached 12th grade, with some 20% of the kids having had six or more sexual partners. Rick Colonno, father of a 16-year-old son and 14-year-old daughter in Arvada, Colo., views sex ed in schools as a necessary evil to fill the void that exists in many homes. Still, he's bothered by what he sees as a subliminal endorsement of sex by authorities. "What they're doing," he says, "is preparing you for sex and then saying, 'But don't have...
Like the U.S. in which he prospered for so long, from the Gilded Age to the Great Depression, Rockefeller was an organism of some contradiction: his idealism and his rapacity, the good John D. and his evil twin, went partners with each other. The deeply pious Baptist Sunday-school teacher would work the rest of the week as a corporate Borgia--the worst of the "malefactors of great wealth," according to Teddy Roosevelt. In his parallel universe of philanthropy, the lipless, squinty skinflint would dispense hundreds of millions of dollars, which among many other things built the University of Chicago...
...estate agent who raised four kids, Ricci was a devoted reader of C.S. Lewis' The Chronicles of Narnia. She has conflicting memories of her young self. "I was the good child," she says, "always well behaved. Even if I wanted to kill someone." She also says, "I was an evil child--well, misguided. I just felt school was never going to end, that there was a weird smell in the classroom I was going to have to smell for the rest of my life. If a little kid could be depressed, I guess I was depressed...
...cartoons. After savoring some impossible TV torture that Itchy the mouse has wreaked on Scratchy the cat, Bart says, "Lisa, if I ever stop loving violence, I want you to shoot me." (Lisa: "Will do.") Maybe the Simpson home carries its own germ of carnage. In the episode where evil old Mr. Burns adopts Bart as his heir and whisks him away, sweet Lisa is seen ripping off strips of wallpaper. Confronted by Marge, Lisa explains that she is "just trying to fill the void of random, meaningless destruction that Bart's absence has left in our hearts...
...bliss of pink-cheeked Americana. And the idea of a program uninterrupted by commercials (Christof makes his money from product placement and ancillary markets) is nearly as naive as Truman. The show is also pretty tame. Unlike most daytime-drama characters, Truman is a faithful husband who has no evil twin and does not suffer bouts of amnesia. For 30 years the show has been a pageant of placidity, a hypoallergenic soap opera where the tension is in the subtext. Will he find out? How's it going...