Word: eviler
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...from a surrogate Viet Nam to the real thing. At the request of his former commander (Richard Crenna), Rambo takes on a dangerous reconnaissance mission to search out MIAs in Viet Nam. Sure enough, he finds some in a supposedly deserted prison camp, guarded by sinister Vietnamese and their evil Soviet overlords. But his mission is sabotaged by the top military brass, who want to close the book on the whole MIA episode. The allegorical message of the film is potent. Like American soldiers in Viet Nam, Rambo tries to do a job but is defeated by his superiors. Left...
...leading candidate, ex officio, no matter who he is. But none of these political killers seems so utterly diabolical as Josef Mengele. The Nazi death camp at Auschwitz-Birkenau, where about 3 million Jews and other victims were slaughtered, was probably the most concentrated expression of human evil in all of history, and Mengele was the emblem and embodiment of Auschwitz...
...corrupt lawyers in the U.S. who gather to pick off the leftovers. Drowning in litigation, the hero asks his own lawyer, who has already secretly agreed to sell him out, how such things can happen. The reply: "Mark, the trouble with you is, you don't understand that evil is / stronger...
...transformation, fantasies of sudden empowerment. Popeye eats spinach. Clark Kent enters the phone booth. The 97-lb. weakling sends away for the Charles Atlas course. Shazam! The creature that a moment ago looked mortal and ordinary and vulnerable becomes a master of the universe. He can fly. Conquer evil. Get revenge. He is born again, this time as a kind...
Muscles seem to be oddly evident in the national fantasy now. Children play with "action figures" like He-Man, the great-muscled master of Castle Greyskull, who does battle with Skeletor, Beastman and the other forces of evil. Ronald Reagan pumps iron for half an hour every day -- and also thinks about "the evil empire." The workouts have, he reports, added 1 3/4 in. of muscle to his chest...