Word: evils
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...season-opener, Harvard played Mr. Hyde. The Crimson was mean. Evil. And good. Wickedly good. Holding Columbia to only 147 yards of total offense, the Crimson lambasted the Lions...
...marvelous characters seethed with venality and obsession. In the current book there is still enough corruption to go around, but not much narrative drive. Condon's Mafia greedsters now own 32% of what there is to own in the U.S., "only five points down on the Japanese." Old, frail, evil Don Corrado hits on the up-to- date notion of getting out of street crime and franchising it to black, Hispanic and Oriental gangs, thus achieving really big bucks and respectability. But instead of telling the story, Condon endlessly tells about it. Characters do not take on their own faces...
...supple, evocative parable of vulnerability and triumph. Nancy Thompson (the splendid Heather Langenkamp) is isolated in adolescence. Her divorced parents are drunk or too distant; her friends are too weak to save themselves or her. So as in Psycho and Halloween, a young woman must act alone against evil. No man can defeat this creature with his strength; she must face him with her brains and purity. "These pictures are boot camps for the psyche," Craven says. "The only choice is to act or die. They are about kids' accepting the reins of adulthood, where you are responsible for your...
Take the case of Chile, for example. Gen. Augusto Pinochet has ruled since 1973. Before he came to power, Chile was one of Latin America's most stable democracies until fears of Salvador Allende's "evil Socialism" began tp trouble his neighbors to the North...
Reagan is at heart a romantic; Bush is not. The President has gone from a simplistic view of the "Evil Empire" to fantasies of a nuclear-free world. Bush wants to nudge perceptions of the Soviets back to a more pragmatic middle ground. Now that he has begun to spell out his own plans for diplomacy and defense, as he did in carefully wrought speeches in Chicago and Corpus Christi, Texas, last week, Bush is not only opening a crack of daylight between himself and Reagan, he is re-emerging as a paragon of what for much of the past...