Word: psychopathic
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What's really funny is how popular this suburban psychopath has become to the very teens he would menace. Freddy Krueger would never have won the Mr. Congeniality award at Springwood High, but at the box office he has matured into Most Likely to Succeed. As embodied by Actor Robert Englund, he is the star of New Line Cinema's A Nightmare on Elm Street series. Each sequel has outgrossed its predecessor, financially as well as filmically, with the first three installments cadging more than $100 million. And the new entry, A Nightmare on Elm Street 4: The Dream Master...
Back then, Eddie Murphy shot to stardom as a jailbird sprung to help Cop Nick Nolte catch a psychopath. This time Schwarzenegger is a Soviet policeman trailing three vicious cocaine smugglers to Chicago, and his partner in crime busting is Jim Belushi, a detective with a good arrest record and a bad attitude. It's glasnost with a gut punch -- Communism and capitalism partnered to crush the evil empire of recreational drugs...
...memoirs to be published in May, Hiss, 83, who served 44 months in prison on a perjury conviction as a result of the microfilm evidence, excoriates Chambers as a "psychopath . . . the perfect pawn" of an opportunistic young Congressman then serving on the House Un-American Activities Committee: Richard Nixon...
...representation. An Armenian President would focus on the Armenian situation in the U.S.S.R. and would have the means to talk to Gorbachev about the problem. An elderly person as President could strengthen Social Security during their term in office. A teacher could give lots of money to education. A psychopath could give lots of money to defense. No one could legitimately complain about not being represented anymore, because all would have an equal chance...
...British class structure. The budding artist coolly looks on everything -- from his mother's death during World War II bombing to his own accidental hastening of an aged relative's demise -- as mere material. His outlook could be that of a genius or a schizophrenic or a psychopath. The confluence among those personalities is precisely Dickinson's point and confers most of the book's considerable suspense. Comparisons to Dostoyevsky are not out of order...