Word: eviler
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...experts who package these policies often don't have much faith in what the boss is preaching; and that the warrantees on schemes to save our society tend to run out shortly after election day. But what he may not realize is that an entire species of not-so-evil people spend their lives working within the Washington system--lobbying, writing legislation, consulting, drafting regulations, and generally attending a lot of boozy receptions. At once victims of their environment and staunch defenders of the red tape that puts food on their tables, the journeyman laborers of government toil in virtual...
...other times, he wails, "There must be a place somewhere in the world where the songs are real." But it's 1934, and only stars like Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers have anything to sing about. Times are hard. No one wants to buy Arthur's music. An evil bank manager refuses to lend him the money to start up a store. Worst of all, his frigid wife Joan just doesn't like sex. "I want you to cut his thing off," she cries to a detective toward the end of this strange, sordid movie. By this time...
...good spirit and the bad spirit cannot live within the same body. But what if they do? Here is where their definition of revenge suddenly makes perfect sense. How do you take revenge on yourself? Even at a very young age these people perceive their own capacity for evil, which is the human capacity, and they deny it with as much vehemence as fright...
...hatred for the boatmaster whatever, only disapproval. He understood the necessity of eating the dead boy, and he observes that the fear of starvation may have driven the boatmaster to behave with unnatural cruelty. Unlike the Cambodian children, Pham acknowledges that there is the capacity for good and evil in everyone...
...screws up the kids and dulls everyone. But after damning T.V. at the dinner table, plenty of us still treat Star Trek or M*A*S*H as the crowning cultural achievements of the century. Too many critics engage in the effortless reductionism which labels all T.V. evil. But even in the truly crummy stuff, the medium has an attraction, one we are not likely to shake soon. So between the ceaseless rhetoric against the sinister box and a national willingness to sit and watch, one can see a strange symbiosis...