Word: eviler
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Relativity of Evil...
...month after martial law was declared in Poland, he dispatched then Secretary of State Alexander Haig to Geneva to meet with Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko. After Haig left office, Reagan continued his anti-Soviet rhetoric, going so far as to denounce the Soviet Union as an "evil empire" in his "Darth Vader speech" last March. But even while lambasting the Soviets in public, Reagan made the unusual gesture of receiving Soviet Ambassador Anatoli Dobrynin in his private White House quarters...
Duke University President Terry Sanford at Emory University in Atlanta: "Our President publicly proclaims that the Soviet Union is the 'evil empire,' and snarls at its leaders. The Soviet leaders respond in kind. That is why most of the people of the world see the United States and the Soviet Union as the two superpowers to be feared. The end mission of the people of the United States is not to build an armed camp to face the other armed camps of the world. And yet that is what we are doing. We can do better than that...
...truthful," says Fierstein. "Not many people do. At the beginning we meet him in full drag, and at the end he's naked, so to speak. I've written a play in which homosexuals don't commit suicide at the end or repent their evil ways. The basic theme is self-respect, the realization that homosexuals can be just as moral as heterosexuals...
...film is stocked with sprightly gags-from the opening credit sequence, with its Rube Goldberg series of mishaps, to the evil Superman getting a wicked charge out of setting the leaning tower of Pisa aright. Director Richard Lester (A Hard Day's Night, Petulia) paces the jokes to his trademarked sprung rhythm and sees that they are deftly executed by his engaging cast. Vaughn may lack the top-dog malevolence needed for an archvillain, but he communicates the fun he had playing the role. O'Toole, whose cheerleader beauty has too often been camouflaged...