Word: evils
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...smells trouble. And gets it. Thugs drill him with lead, he gets wet paint on his jacket, a bear trap snaps on his leg, and a window slams down on his fingertips. Nordberg's partner, Lieut. Frank Drebin (Leslie Nielsen), solemnly swears revenge. But before he has * brought the evil Vincent Ludwig (Ricardo Montalban) to justice, Drebin must do business with a killer fish, a body-stocking condom, a ballplaying assassin (Reggie Jackson) and the Queen of England. As Frank could tell you, it's the same old story: "Boy finds girl. Boy loses girl. Girl finds boy. Boy forgets...
District Prophet (D.P.) Mani Sadr: Could you tell the Court, Mr. Haj, how it was you came to make bargains with those scheming imperialists from that evil place in the West...
...second best -- ruthlessly efficient Asians. Starting with Richard Gephardt's "$48,000 Hyundai" ads and finishing with a Dukakis TV spot that featured a rising Japanese flag, the Democrats' appeal to economic nationalism has not been subtle. Attacking allies is not nearly as satisfying as attacking enemies (say, the Evil Empire), but it is a start...
...create fear of race riots, rather than addressing the deep social problems--such as poverty and urban decay--that helped cause the riots. George Bush also used the issue of "law and order" for cheap political advantage. Bush fomented racial hatred and planted the seeds of terrifying nightmares of evil black rapists climbing in the windows of suburban homes. This is BLATANT RACISM...
...tour the following cities: Los Angeles, San Francisco . . . New York and Washington." Why wretchedly? Because Abbey loyalists don't like to imagine their prophet -- that grand old desert solitary, that North American champion of the ideological beer-can toss -- getting anywhere near Los Angeles, New York or those other evil megaburbs. Somebody might package his crankiness for distribution in health-food stores, or subject him to relentless understanding on public...