Word: eviler
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Berlin Philharmonic and Deutsche Oper Berlin Chorus; Deutsche Grammophon, five records). Wagner's last and most difficult music drama has not had a really satisfying recording-until now. Hofmann makes Parsifal both strong and guileless, the splendid Van Dam is an anguished Amfortas, and Nimsgern is an evil, but not inhuman Klingsor. Only Vejzovic, a screechy Kundry, is weak. The real stars are Karajan and his Berliners, who capture the score's glowing spirituality and black magic in a luminous performance...
...legislators in the state by Texas Monthly magazine-in his first term. His mania for publicity alarmed even close associates. Says Leslie Smith, Martin's former public relations spokesman: "He was always intent on staging something to show himself as the clean-cut Christian battling the forces of evil." But Martin's earlier stunts were trifling compared with what happened at 2 a.m. on July...
Reagan also proposes new federal fines for employers who knowingly hire illegal aliens: up to $1,000 for each undocumented worker. Says Labor Secretary Raymond Donovan: "It is our apathy, our lack of concern that has allowed such an evil and unconscionable system to exist." Donovan faces a tough job in breaking through that apathy and cracking down on America's underground labor market...
History shows that the Churchills, the Roosevelts, the Hitlers and the Stalins made almost as many mistakes as correct decisions in their designs, both good and evil. The call to action swept their people along. The polls show grave doubts among the American people about where Ronald Reagan is taking us. That uncertainty was expressed colorfully by Senate Majority Leader Howard Baker when he described Reaganomics as a "riverboat gamble." But there is an irresistible appeal to fall in behind a man when he promises adventure, even when one may not agree with him. Tennyson said it well. "I myself...
...strong the response to it. Of the prints, the blue swimmer stirred the most emphatic responses and the largest number of positive reactions: "lightness and freedom," "a loving, warm companion." But one woman felt frighteningly "submerged." Viewers found the greenish abstraction disturbing or threatening, calling it "demonic" or "evil." One even described it as "death reflected in a pool...