Word: eviler
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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WHILE RONALD REAGAN was chuckling this weekend at Rancho Cielo over his successful political maneuvers both in the Senate and on the borders of Nicaragua, there were surely some equally gleeful chuckles deep in the heart of the Evil Empire...
Weinberger's token anti-smoking campaign is bound to fail. Obviously, it's the governmental equivalent of the parental maxim, "Do as I say, not as I do." On one hand, Uncle Sam tells his soldiers to eschew the evil tobacco leaf, while on the other, he provides them discounts on cigarettes...
...buffs by now should be familiar with Blackford Oakes, William F. Buckley's tony spy hero of six previous novels. The cold is something he never had to come in out of. He knows that he works for the good guys. In his latest adventure, Blacky confronts the Evil Empire, circa 1954. Stalin is dead, Georgi Malenkov sits unsurely as party chief, and the ruthless Lavrenti Beria, head of the KGB, plots his own ascension. The monolith is in transition, and the U.S. and Britain launch a secret commando raid to overthrow the Soviet- dominated government of Albania. The assault...
...from the mouths of the poor and transformed it into his treasure on earth. Such venality is not a matter of either Freud or metaphysics. It is just a brutal habit, the crocodile reflex of a man too long in power. It is a subdivision of the banality of evil...
...best of the secondary characters is Kurgan, played by Clancy Brown of The Bride fame. As the immortal (yes, another immortal) representation of evil, Kurgan seems strangely at home in downtown Manhattan. His attire looks as if it has been borrowed from The Terminator's prop room, but unlike Arnold, Kurgan has that all-important sense of humor. After all those centuries, its nice to see that he's still enjoying his work...