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Word: eviler (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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Thinking he is delivering the coup de grace, the Evil One pronounces his verdict. "Brent, this needs a hagggahlot of work, and mucho revision. I mean, your imagery is so...so...generic...

Author: By Benjamin N. Smith, | Title: A Section in Hell | 3/18/1986 | See Source »

...good was interred with Jean Paul Getty's bones, the authors of these two biographies have not found it. Neither have they discovered anything that could be called evil. Getty, who died in 1976 at age 83, simply emerges as a supremely selfish man and a consummate bottom-liner who subjected all his passions to cost analysis. In order of importance, his preoccupations were the oil business, sex, and bargain hunting for art. He even looked the part: a Scrooge-like figure with a lecherous gaze living in an underheated English manor house that contained a public pay phone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Hazards of the Midas Touch the Great Getty by Robert Lenzne | 3/17/1986 | See Source »

...impoverished Pakistani writer (Roshan Seth) and the nephew of a gaudy entrepreneur (Saeed Jaffrey). Uncle is a sharp businessman but unlucky with women: his daughter is a rebellious flirt, his aging mistress carries herself like the ghost of swinging London, and his wife hexes the mistress with an evil spell concocted of mice and berries. When Uncle puts Omar in charge of a run-down Laundromat -- laundrette, in Britspeak -- the lad nicks a couple of packets of cocaine to finance a renovation; he calls the place Powders. Omar hires Johnny as his assistant, and the two fall into a tense...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Rue Britannia My Beautiful Laundrette | 3/17/1986 | See Source »

...midst of extricating her from her difficulties, Tamino discovers that the source of evil in the land is not Sarastro, but the Queen of the Night, herself. Testing their virtue through a series of trials, Sarastro conspires with the two lovers and eventually triumphes with them over the forces of evil, leaving the Queen in the dust--daughterless and powerless...

Author: By Lea A. Saslav, | Title: Flat Flute | 3/14/1986 | See Source »

Special kudos also goes to M.K.Kamala Soparkar who played the evil third lady and the sweet fetching third boy with equal ease using her beautiful alto voice...

Author: By Lea A. Saslav, | Title: Flat Flute | 3/14/1986 | See Source »

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