Word: evils
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...There is no sex at all, and generally not much human contact beyond the kind that requires a salute or a karate chop. On the other hand, the author has kept up with shifts of attitude in the U.S., and not every Kremlin big shot is portrayed as an evil-empire builder. He has not anticipated the end of the Afghan war, and the Pentagon procurement scandal is not foreshadowed. Complicated weapons systems usually work, and no U.S. military officer or enlisted person is less than true blue. Fair enough. Accepting Clancy's word on such matters for the duration...
...good day. Just as I finished a second cup of coffee, an editor called me, requesting some fixes on a story. As we discussed the changes, my mind began to transmogrify. His familiar visage took on the horrible features of Tezcatlipoca, Mexico's evil magician-god with blazing eyes and slobbering tongue. If one encounters this dreadful apparition, legend has it, one's only hope is to thrust a hand into the god's bloody chest cavity and seize its palpitating heart...
...abuses of psychiatry, the exile of Academician Andrei Sakharov, the presence of our troops in Afghanistan -- all lined up and blown out of proportion by reactionary elements in the Western press -- worked to destroy the heroic aura, reducing our image to that of an anti-Christ "empire of evil." However, thanks to the peaceful initiatives of our country in nuclear disarmament, glasnost and democratization, the anti-Christ image has been shattered...
...cartoons that inspired them. Nor do the human actors add much. Hoskins, in a role for which Eddie Murphy and Bill Murray were considered, lacks their effortless star quality. He's more like an armor-plated Yosemite Sam, gruff and explodable. Only Christopher Lloyd, as the evil Judge Doom with a scheme even more nefarious than the one hatched by the burghers of Chinatown, easily straddles the film's two worlds...
Troublesome as they may be, the Armenian protests -- and Moscow's restraint in dealing with them -- are part of what makes the Soviet Union look less formidable these days. A truly evil empire would have put down the protests with tanks, troops and mass arrests. Shared problems build trust...