Word: eviler
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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That assumption, however, is unfair. King transcends such stereotypes because he is a writer with a vision--a vision for which horror is simply a medium. Beneath the macabre lies a majestic conception of good and evil, a perceptive appreciation of human nature, and a basic understanding of fear as a primordial element of that nature. King could be an artist. With endless sessions of revision, a dash of torment and a bit of solemnity, king could, if he tried, be a serious artist...
...hackneyed plot. In "Apt Pupil," King relates the tale of an All-America-honor-roll-blonde-haired-blue-eyed-12-year-old corrupted in a relationship with an ex-Nazi war criminal. The imagery is suggestive, and the sense of an almost unholy irreverence--the juxtaposition of good and evil--is affective. But the application of his powerful in might is diminished in the banality of his subject matter...
Finally, in this, the book's second-to-last story, Prager has figured out an answer to her penis envy. "The L.P.A.R.D is not an evil device designed to castrate men," asserts the major while trying to explain the beauty of the weapon to one of her women. "It is simply an intelligent and long over-due reaction to centuries of Harvarding...
...most "message" movies, the true ideological enemy is nuance. Plot is reduced to polemic; characters become walking placards of good or evil; emotional shading is obscured by stolid or hammy acting; the mise en scène angles each shot like a schoolroom pointer. Moonlighting undercuts the genre's stylistic totalitarianism with deadpan comedy, and reveals its message through vignettes, moods, gestures, faces. Jeremy Irons' dour, handsome face suggests the first strokes of a political cartoon from an East European underground newspaper. Nowak is the story's narrator, its star and its sensibility, and Skolimowski challenges...
...unjust that the blame for the atrocity hailed down upon Israelis alone. The Christian militiamen who actually did the evil work were rarely mentioned. Presumably, that kind of Hobbesian savagery comes so naturally to them that it hardly bears remarking. There was a strange compliment concealed here. The world accused Israel so violently in part because the massacre profoundly violated Israel's own moral standards. Some of the vitriol, too, was just anti-Semitism dressed up to look like righteous indignation...