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Word: eviler (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...dumping Robin and the goony rogues' gallery. This is a face-off between two men in weird masks: one in a leathery black item out of a dominatrix's pleasure chest, the other with a grin frozen into a rictus. One man obsessed with good, the other enthralled by evil: Batman (Michael Keaton) and the Joker (Jack Nicholson...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Murk in The Myth | 6/19/1989 | See Source »

...almost exactly ten years ago, in June 1979, that Jimmy Carter signed the last strategic-arms treaty. Ronald Reagan denounced the treaty, then placed in key posts a cadre of ideologues who opposed bargains with the "evil empire." Only under pressure from across the Atlantic did the Reagan Administration enter talks with the Soviets on intermediate-range nuclear missiles. Similarly, when the Administration began a new round of strategic arms talks, the aim was not so much to reach an agreement with Moscow as to outflank the nuclear-freeze movement in the U.S. and to shore up congressional support...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: America Abroad: Back in Business | 6/12/1989 | See Source »

...bastion of mediocre evil," Kaplan added, smiling sweetly...

Author: By Adam K. Goodheart, | Title: Lampy Mag May Outsell Hotcakes | 6/6/1989 | See Source »

...students have struck an ancient chord in Chinese history," explains Thomas Bernstein, a China scholar and chairman of Columbia University's political science department. "It is the idea of the scholar-official who remonstrates with the emperor about some evil in the kingdom that the ruler should put right. The emperor won't listen, and the scholar-official takes his own life as a witness, or sacrifice, to the higher good." By casting themselves in the role of the scholar-official, the students have become the bearers of that tradition...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: China: State of Siege | 5/29/1989 | See Source »

Call waiting is a necessary evil, like the core curriculum. Or death...

Author: By Darshak M. Sanghavi, | Title: Frosh Phone Follies | 5/17/1989 | See Source »

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