Word: foulest
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Reputation, of all human possessions, is perhaps the least tangible yet the most zealously guarded. To be known for integrity and honor, most people willingly labor a lifetime. Even a rogue may cherish the mistaken notion that he enjoys the respect of his community. As Shakespeare's foulest villain, Iago, puts it in Othello, "Good name in man and woman is the immediate jewel of their souls." That is why the concepts of slander and libel, and of the right of the aggrieved to seek redress for defamation, were introduced into English common law during the Middle Ages...
Brubaker, which is about the efforts of a warden to clean up what looks to be the foulest and most corrupt prison in America, is not as close to everyone's concerns as All the President's Men was, nor has it the knockabout charm of The Electric Horseman. But it is an often powerful film. Its most potent passages come at the beginning. Redford, in the title role, becomes an inmate in a prison in order to experience conditions there firsthand before he takes over as warden. Since I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang almost...
...American infantry tank company. He flew with them from their base at Fort Polk, La., attended the ceremonies welcoming them to Germany and then followed them into the field. His camera makes no judgments, but the Pentagon should be happy with the result: American soldiers may have the foulest mouths in the world but, for the most part, they seem also to be intelligent and hardworking...