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Word: evils (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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Next, John Ritter, I believe with all my heart that Three's Company was an evil plot designed to lower the standards of the American television viewing public to a point where the networks could bill re-runs of shows like Hee Haw and Mr. Ed as quality entertainment...

Author: By David L. Greene, | Title: Blake Edwards' Skin Flick | 3/3/1989 | See Source »

...report also indicates that crack's evil influence has tripled the number of child abuse cases involving parents under the influence of drugs. The number of reported cases has swelled over the past five years from 2627 to nearly...

Author: By Joseph C. Tedeschi, | Title: A Time for Action | 2/28/1989 | See Source »

...When I started teaching, I expected my students to have read A Catcher in the Rye and Lord of the Flies," said Richard C. Marius, who heads Expository Writing. "Now everyone has read Stephen King. In understanding children and adults and evil and their confrontation with evil, Stephen King is in a class with Henry James and the Turn of the Screw. He is a lot better than Edgar Allen...

Author: By Carolyn J. Sporn, | Title: King Discusses Horror Genre | 2/28/1989 | See Source »

...mutilation and death. But her squabbling adults have little more personality than Punch and Judy, and their maltreated daughter is a mere shadow. Waverly Place takes 294 pages to express what W.H. Auden did in a quatrain: "I and the public know/ What all schoolchildren learn,/ Those to whom evil is done/ Do evil in return...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Out To Make Killings | 2/20/1989 | See Source »

...truth of the matter is that while much in America is good, much is not. The fact that minorities, inner-city families, the homeless and the poor suffer gross social injustice, and that American foreign policy continues to perpetuate much evil abroad, means that the present order should not be saved...

Author: By Bill Tsingos, | Title: Rethinking the `C'-Word | 2/12/1989 | See Source »

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