Word: eviler
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Captain EO kicks into gear--Not that it doesn't land running to begin with--when Anjelica Huston takes the screen as the B-Bad to the B-Bone Evil Queen. She's amazing. Or rather, it's amazing...
What happens, of course, is little old Michael's got to dance and sing the Evil Queen and her whip-cracking tinpan entourage into an early grave. And the forces of Music and Light oblige him, transforming Huston into a doe-eyed Greek goddess. It's a happy ending, sure. But with that mayonnaise-in-her-veins look of Nirvana on her kisser, you kinda sorta miss the spitting-spider Evil Queen...
...hide its face. Governors and police chiefs for instance, could be elected and re-elected espousing hate. Some even ran for President doing the same. To be against racism in the South back then was not easy; it required a great deal of courage. But at least the evil to be opposed was clear. Not so anymore...
...natural to want to confront groups such as the Klan. But in our zeal to combat the hate and evil they espouse, we must not forget the problems which are more difficult to solve, the evils which are less easy...
...poor were relegated to a sinkhole of poverty and misery. Threatened by what it viewed as an emerging criminal class, the English oligarchy embraced the idea of forced exile as a convenient way to get rid of both prisoners and prisons. "Transportation made sublimation literal," writes Hughes. "It conveyed evil to another world...