Word: eviler
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Southern writers, only the greatest of them, William Faulkner, had the courage to examine the true paradox of the South-the julep-sipping Southern gentleman who bought and sold human beings. The Agrarians ignored the dominant fact of their history: that their "New World Eden" fed upon an evil far greater than the industrialization they lament...
...favor last year. But the husband is appealing. Hill meanwhile has already had to pay a lawyer $2,500 out of his own pocket. Perhaps worse, the yen for litigation nearly proved contagious. "I wanted to cross-file," Hill admits, "but my lawyer reminded me that would be returning evil for evil...
Alfred Hitchcock, 80, much mimicked master of cinematic suspense who in 53 meticulously crafted films concocted riveting nightmares of evil that set the world squirming, and sometimes laughing (albeit nervously), at the anxieties that bedevil just about everyone...
Some analysts felt that there was a connection between Hua's abrupt departure and the Gang of Four trial. According to their theory, Hua may have agreed to step down in exchange for an agreement that his damaging past associations with the "evil gang" would not surface during the trial's proceedings. More likely, Hua may have recently collided with Deng's faction over the quickening pace of de-Maoization, which Hua is known to oppose...
...abrupt and early end, though whatever fun and frolic the film offers depends solely on his occasional presence as the comically menacing leader of an oil cartel. Perhaps one should say the oil cartel. The movie traffics heavily in this kind of simple-minded paranoia. It insists that evil lurks in a single all-powerful force possessing the power to warp men's minds, condition their behavior and, of course, bump them off wherever they live in the world and whenever, over the course of many years, it suits the conspiracy's purpose...