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Word: vilest (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Kienholz sculpture; the climactic gun battle takes just a few shorthand strokes. The acting styles collide fiercely too. MacLachlan and Dern have an innocents-in-hell sweetness; Stockwell does a preening Percy Dovetonsils number; Rossellini is a madwoman with all stops out; Hopper tops her, with maybe the vilest sadistic creep in movie history...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: It's a Strange World, Isn't It Blue Velvet | 9/22/1986 | See Source »

...seems hardly necessary to add that Rambo does discover Americans in the vilest of imaginable durances and that he (and they) are abandoned by his mission's masterminds. After being captured by the Vietnamese and their Soviet advisers, he survives one of the most vividly presented torture sequences in recent movie history. Then he rescues the prisoners and wreaks a terrible vengeance not only on their captors but on the Americans who tried to play him so false...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Danger: Live Moral Issues Rambo: First Blood Part II | 5/27/1985 | See Source »

...ferocious battle of wits ensues. On one side: Buckaroo (Peter Weller) and the members of Team Banzai. On the other: Dr. Emilio Lizardo (John Lithgow), once a brilliant physicist, now the vilest, battiest extraterrestrial in all the genre. Meanwhile, the benevolent rulers of Planet 10 hover above New Jersey in a craft that looks like the Mollusk from Outer Space, dispensing wisdom and even more confusion. Where will it lead? Most likely to nuclear annihilation. Already the President of the U.S. is opening a dread, eyes-only packet that reads DECLARATION OF WAR: THE SHORT FORM...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: It Came from Beyond Bananas | 8/13/1984 | See Source »

...Americans long and bitter experience with racist victimization and brutalization. It is hard to believe that Mr. Kenyatta's and BALSA's knowledge of this experience is so shallow and unsophisticated that they could transform the occasion of the PLO's UN representative's talk into one of the vilest assaults on the norms of fairness and free speech to occur at Harvard in many years...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Condemnation | 4/25/1984 | See Source »

...encased in that carbonite, is a wall decoration in the castle of Jabba the Hutt on the desert planet Tatooine. Jabba, a huge, slobbering, sluglike creature resembling a repulsive mixture of Humpty Dumpty and Sydney Greenstreet, is Mr. Big in the galactic underworld. Around him he has assembled the vilest monsters in the universe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Great Galloping Galaxies! | 5/23/1983 | See Source »

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