Word: evil
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...audience. You could cut the white liberal guilt in the theater with a knife. Even though the real issue at hand is mostly a technical legal and political question, Spielberg some-how extrapolates it so that it becomes a question of slavery versus non-slavery, of purist evil against innocent victims...
With payroll becoming an almost sure-fire route to success, baseball has developed a caste-like system which has sucked the excitement out of our nation's pastime. Teams with small checkbooks can no longer compete for championships, since they are easily squashed by evil empires such as the Yankees and the Braves. Because of their vast financial resources, these virtual all-star teams will always be top contenders for the World Series crown, while teams from cities such as Montreal and Minneanapolis will never be able to afford a contending team. Sure, teams such as the Marlins may occasionally...
...footsteps of Matthew McConaughey, is Rudy Baylor, a recent law-school grad with a soft spot for people in need. With the help of his diminutive mentor (Danny DeVito), Rudy evolves into an ethics-driven Superman--a lawyer with a heart, out to save the world from evil. First, there is his bold attack on a gargantuan insurance company that has a method of denying claims until policyholders give up. Rudy is astounded by the corruption of such a company that refuses to pay for the medical treatment of a young man dying of leukemia. But one heroic task...
...poor Microsoft, getting pushed around by that big ol' bully, the American government. I appreciated the "everybody-loves-an-underdog" sentiment of senior David M. Weld's "Booing Bill Gates" commentary (Nov. 18), but he is sadly misled in his Panglossian views on Microsoft's "evil empire...
...into forgetting the many others who are still struggling against tyranny, slavery and poverty." In an interview with TIME on Saturday, Wei said that China's leaders view human-rights concessions as a tool of diplomacy: "They are using political prisoners as hostages in international politics. It is an evil, hoodlum method...