Word: evilness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Like any good showman, McCarthy scheduled some comic relief. He brought on one Alexander Gregory, also of Lynn, who protested quietly: "I'm not an evil man. No one in Lynn thinks I am evil." In fact, said Gregory, he had never met an "evil Communist." All the party members he knew were "very gentlemanly, honest, conscientious, security-minded persons." McCarthy was surprisingly gentle toward the gentle Mr. Gregory...
Tallulah Bankhead last week made most TV screens seem far too small. On the U.S. Steel Show (alt. Tues. 9:30 p.m., ABC-TV), starring in a production of Hedda Gabler, Tallulah turned Ibsen's devious, subtly evil heroine into a flamboyant, shouting hussy. It was like a lioness playing Puss in Boots. To TV audiences educated to the quiet underplaying of such shows as Dragnet, watching Actress Bankhead was a startling experience...
...leaves on the tree of evil that are dangerous, but its roots," said controversial Father Marcos. "I am striking at the roots. The leaves will fall by themselves...
...gangster, trapped by both police and conscience, is forced to hide in the friendly surroundings of the native quarter. Ultimately his love for freedom and for the jeweled Gaby draws him from the safety of the Casbah to the dangers of the city. But even Pepe's love is evil, for Gaby is the mistress of another man. Gabin plays the part frankly and sadistically, yet he ended on a note of pathos, emotional enough for melodrama, and ironic enough to escape sentimentality...
...witch." There was also dimly at hand a satisfying monster called the Todal who is made of lip, looks like a blob of glup, sounds like rabbits screaming, and smells of old, unopened rooms. The Todal's job was to punish evildoers for having done less evil than they should, and he ended the play by making a mouthful of the ineptly villainous Duke...