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Word: eviler (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...course, this is not the first time that Reagan has attempted to create a foe to explain away this country's social malaise. Only last spring the paradigm of evil was terrorism. But a few months and a couple of bombings of Libya later, he has come to realize that all of his empty bellowings will do nothing to stop TWA flights from being hijacked or Paris from becoming a veritable graveyard...

Author: By Joshua H. Henkin, | Title: Drug Hysteria | 9/27/1986 | See Source »

...Evil designs are being passed for good intentions, and a sword for a shield." he said...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Shevardnadze Criticizes Star Wars Plans | 9/24/1986 | See Source »

UNITED NATIONS, N.Y.--Soviet Foreign Minister Eduard A. Shevardnadze accused President Reagan yesterday of harboring "evil designs" for a first strike with the Star Wars system, but he said a "realistic possibility" still existed for a superpower sumit...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Shevardnadze Criticizes Star Wars Plans | 9/24/1986 | See Source »

THERE ARE, OF course, new twists to old plots in the new tome. Pulitzer Prize-winner E.O. Wilson, who in previous years had strayed from the evil cave of sociobiology into the abyss of the Core Curriculum, will this year offer a graduate level course in that controversial field...

Author: By John Rosenthal, | Title: It's Back and It's Not Much Better | 9/23/1986 | See Source »

...entertaining is Captain EO? Pretty entertaining, actually. The first half of the film is an energetic rehash of the Star Wars space battle. The second half is an elaborate Michael Jackson video, in which the star emerges from his rickety spaceship to do battle with the Evil Empress, played with magisterial malevolence by Oscar Winner Anjelica Huston (Prizzi's Honor). Jackson, who by now could double for his own Tussaud waxwork, is an improbable Han Solo, but he still dances like a jive Astaire and earned audible swoons from teenage girls at the premiere. The film's 3-D effects...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Let's Go to the Feelies | 9/22/1986 | See Source »

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