Word: evil
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...another case of good actors trying their damnedest with bad lines. Kyra Sedgwick, James Spader, Albert Brooks and Helen Mirren are all fine, subtle performers; here, they are relegated to stale, two-dimensional stereo-types. Lumet may as well have subtitles put in key scenes: "This man is evil, because all he cares about is money. This man is good, because he really cares about making people better...
...Struggling to stay out front, tax hawks like Dick Armey and Newt Gingrich are looking to redirect the formidable momentum that carried Kerrey-Portman: Reform of the evil IRS, they insist, is mere prelude to a sweeping reform of taxation itself. "People are tired of the current tax code," said Gingrich Wednesday. "It's not fair to simply say it's about the IRS as an institution. It's also about the code they are trying to enforce...
...those of you for whom it matters, when you cast your vote in the election today and have weighed Messinger's apparent genuine compassion against Giuliani's penchant for unqualified results, if good versus evil does not influence your voting decisions at a level consistent with most systems of morality and you are at a loss for who to vote for, pick Giuliani if for no other reason than that he's so damn New York...
Unthinkably evil, you say? Well, he's already taken a tentative step in that direction. Try to access Microsoft's popular online gaming site, the Zone, using Netscape's browser or a Mac machine for a taste of the power Gates could eventually wield. "We're sorry," reads the otherwise blank page. "The new Zone doesn't currently support Microsoft Windows 3.x; or Apple Macintosh or Unix (R) operating systems, or Microsoft Internet Explorer version 2.0 or Netscape Navigator browsers." Resistance is futile...
...series, The Hunter and The Man with the Getaway Face, are due to be reprinted. They deserve to be, though Comeback is a grittier, better book. And the other 14 prehistoric Parkers? For now, rummage through used-book stores and the quarter-a-book shelves at the Salvation Army. Evil lurks; you could get lucky...