Word: evilness
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Chamundeshwari, Prerna Martin ’09 ably performed an exhausting sequences of steps and poses that demonstrated why I need to head to the Mac more often. With an intense unblinking glare and deft swordplay, Mridula S. Raman ’06 was effectively scary as single-mindedly evil Mahisha. In Saavitri’s story, a young woman follows the god of death, Yama, into the underworld and entreats him to resurrect her husband from the dead. Although they communicate solely through their hands and eyes, their mimed interactions are so vivid the mind imagines their mouths following...
...alien, exotic world, one in which women served men less with sexual favors than by creating a simulacrum of the feminine ideal. But the book's real pull was its take on the Cinderella story, with Sayuri as the young heroine, Mameha as the fairy godmother, Hatsumomo as the evil stepmother and the Chairman, a powerful client of the geishas, as Sayuri's prince charming...
...violence. The film doesn’t legitimize violence, nor does it take an overtly political stance in terms of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. It is aware of the issues but never didactic. Rather, the goal is to challenge our natural impulse to dehumanize suicide bombers as one-dimensionally evil...
Like many committed health professionals in the developing world, Akunyili brings an almost messianic zeal to her work. "Drug faking or counterfeiting is the greatest evil of our time," she says. "Malaria can be prevented, HIV/AIDS can be avoided and armed robbery may kill a few at a time, but fake drugs kill en masse...
...cynicism. The President has proposed vast, transformational policies-the remaking of the Middle East, of Social Security, of the federal bureaucracy. But he has done so in a haphazard way, with little attention to detail or consequences. There are grand pronouncements and, yes, crusades, punctuated with marching words like evil and moral and freedom. Beneath, though, is the cynical assumption that the public doesn't care about the details-that results don't matter, corners can be cut and special favors bestowed...