Word: eviler
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...possible that Philip Seymour Hoffman may finally have found perfect bliss. He has, of course, been terrific in films ranging from Capote to Mission Impossible 3, but the chance to play perfect evil - a delirious combination of hubris and stupidity - does not come along every day, even for protean performers like Hoffman. Yet here he is, deadly calm and dead-pan hilarious as Andy, the meanest man in the world, in what may be (slightly more arguably) the meanest movie in the world, Sidney Lumet's Before the Devil Knows You're Dead...
...Stassen knew that wearing a bronzed possum was safer than hitting the stump with a naked scalp. Why? For the same reason, perhaps, that bald men are icons of evil in the movies, from Lex Luthor to Dr. Evil to Mr. Potter in It's a Wonderful Life. Sometime in our political history, baldness was downgraded from Churchillian to ... Dr. Phil...
...faulty belief in society’s continual progress and its evolution toward a new world without ills or faults. This trend, Gray claims, is both utopian and apocalyptic. Gray traces the origin of utopian ideals to Jesus’ apocalyptic anticipation of a new kingdom where all evil is eliminated. Gray convincingly asserts that early Christianity was founded upon efforts to make up for Jesus’ failure to fulfill his promise of a Second Coming. As Christianity’s influence declined, Enlightenment thinkers picked up the apocalyptic idea of a perfect end in sight, but discarded God?...
...It’s incredible to consider the amount of vitriol the steroid issue has already inspired. Baseball was practically seized in a wave of hate and anger over what appeared to be a cheater acquiring the greatest record in all of sports. People bemoaned the ultimate triumph of evil over good, treating Bond’s achievement as though it heralded the final destruction of Western civilication and any semblance of human decency. But what happens when the “cheater” is someone on our favorite team next? What happens if it turns...
...Robert Baer, a former CIA field officer assigned to the Middle East, is TIME.com's intelligence columnist and the author of See No Evil and, most recently, the novel Blow the House Down