Word: eviler
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...atmosphere most conductive to an operatic production, the modest set with few props and simple staging enables the cast to move around easily, focusing our attention on their voices and gestures, rather than unnecessary production, as the cast deftly conveys the simple themes of good versus evil and heaven versus hell of the libretto, complemented by Mozart's score. The simple costumes, which can't be pinned down to any one era, and the sparsely furnished set suggests tone rather than time, giving the singers the opportunity to display their superb voices and at the same time revealing the agelessness...
Even before Yuri Andropov's death, Reagan had unilaterally declared a cease-fire in the war of words. In a TIME interview on Jan. 2, Reagan vowed that he would not use phrases like "focus of evil" in reference to the U.S.S.R. again. On Jan. 16, he gave a speech conjuring up the image of a folksy get-together among Jim and Sally and Ivan and Anya, who quickly bridge the ideological divide between their governments. The Soviet leader made fun of Reagan's rhetorical tactics and challenged him to match his "speeches" with "practical deeds." Nonetheless...
...exposed to films made for earlier generations. Like their Hollywood counterparts, these movies often traffic heavily in racial stereotypes-Big Mommas ruling their matriarchies with flying skillets, lazy males shuffling off to drink and gamble away the rent money, tight-skirted temptresses with whiplash hips luring the pious into evil ways...
...Shah were in the midst of a power struggle that had taken the country to the brink of civil war. Khomeini shrewdly used the war to restore unity to the country by redefining the struggle between the two nations as a battle in the eternal war between good and evil forces. In short, the war picked up where the revolution had left off. Up to this day, the Khomeini regime uses the war for restoring the revolutionary momentum which continues to be one of the foundations of its power...
Considered a radical by many whites and Blacks. Malcolm X as a Black Muslim believed that "the white man is the devil" and that whites as a whole are inherently evil, while Blacks are a supreme race. Those who converted to the Muslim religion began following a strict decadence-free regimen, including abstinence from smoking, drinking, dancing, and dating. As a Muslim minister, it was Malcolm's job to explain the teachings of Allah and The Honorable Elijah Muhammed...