Word: eviler
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...period detail, creating a fuzzily romantic picture-book of old New Orleans. Atlantic City is an equally memorable urban portrait, but this is clearly not a city Malle loves, and he serves it up with objective clarity, sharply focusing his lens on stupid people in ugly places doing evil things...
...catalogue of detailed horrors--I'm surprised the city's Board of Tourism didn't find some way to block its distribution. A pair of young people, Robert Joy as Joe and Hollis McLaren as the pregnant Chrissie, make their way down the highway towards this mecca of evil at the film's beginning, and you figure they are innocents who will be ground up by the Big City's hustlers and dealers. It turns out, though, that Joe is trying to sell a pound of cocaine he picked up at a Philadelphia drop-off site, and Chrissie...
...post-assassination sermon, an earnest lamentation about the "sickness of American society," has become a notably fatuous genre that blames everyone and then, after 15 minutes of earnestly empty regret, absolves everyone. It is true that there is a good deal of evil in the American air; television and the sheer repetitiousness of violence have made a lot of the country morally weary and dull and difficult to shock...
...hotheaded (but lovable) musician goes off with a woman over 30-always evil-and Lane rebounds with Reggie, the opera singer, and Tom, "the sweetest guy in the world." After the requisite skirmishes and reconciliations, Michael is persuaded to play a concerto for two hearts, and the wedded Lane happily manages his life. Throughout her trials, she cooks not one meal and never worries about pregnancy or inflation. Romance heroines are too busy tracking and trapping their hot-eyed executives...
Though we find Haig's rabidly anti-Soviet, good-versus-evil world view frighteningly simplistic, he should continue to offer the President his expertise and true policy views--in private. And should Reagan take any steps Haig disagrees with on policy grounds, he should air his views...