Word: eviler
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Director John Carpenter has tried to summon all the malevolence of the nation's biggest city--and there is plenty there--and speed it up to a time when all of the city's other qualities have moved to the Sunbelt. In 1997 all that is left is the Evil...
...bathed away in the great national wash of relief and welcome. Hardly any Americans thought much then, or even afterward, about Dresden blasted, Hamburg gone, Hiroshima and Nagasaki reduced to radioactive powder. All of those American firestorms had, of course, consumed innocent civilians. But, the ceremonies said, never mind, evil went down for the count. Ego te absolvo. You boys did what you had to do. Where were you anyway?the Bulge? Anzio? Tarawa? Iwo? Say, that must have been tough. Tell me about it. Let me buy you another...
...litter of dragon cubs. Understandably, even one fire-breathing creature has the locals a little unnerved, especially since once a month, their ruler picks a young maiden to be fed to the beast. Thus the search for a savior begins, setting up the required battle of good versus evil...
...knew someone else, most likely poor or Black or both, would go in his place. But it was, at least on one level, a decision not of cowardice but of conviction. Fallows did not join the Army because the Army was slaughtering innocents in Vietnam, fighting a sick and evil war that no one with a conscience could support. The same facts that led Fallows to avoid the draft lead many to oppose its revival; his unwillingness to address those issues is the book's chief flaw...
...McEnroe fell behind 15-30. Losing the next point would make a break more than likely, and he would be down two sets to one. He hit a volley long; the linesman missed it, but the umpire called it out. 15-40 and double set point. Once again those evil officials were out to get Little Johnnie...