Word: eviler
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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...
...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...
...bastion of mediocre evil," Kaplan added, smiling sweetly...
...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...
Call waiting is a necessary evil, like the core curriculum. Or death...