Word: maligned
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Earth from their new CD Pop. Motorists in Kansas City, Mo., got a glimpse of hell: highways were closed, city streets were blocked, and police corralled hundreds of fans. In the video, author WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS, 84, whose nihilistic novels have influenced U2 front man BONO, embodies a malign force that brings down civilization. Symbolizing the band's dim view of a rampant consumer culture (but they will happily sell you a CD!), frail Burroughs pushes a shopping cart out of the dead city. The band hopes to shoot two more videos during its PopMart tour in the U.S., says...
...demographic group--working-class, Southern white males--about whom society still seems to allow slurs, like "bubbas." He also seems to be one of those ineffectual men who take things too far when they are given a little power. In the movies, when an an ordinary person faces great, malign forces, that person is played by Gary Cooper or Harrison Ford. Jewell seems to be a pudgy version of Barney Fife. In this mismatch, he wouldn't appear to have a chance...
...director Keith Gordon stresses. For Campbell (Nick Nolte, all sweet and sober innocence) is basically an old-fashioned romantic, believing that morality resides solely in being true to one's best self. His refusal to acknowledge the desire of true believers to enlist everyone in their cause--whether malign or benign--brings him first to profound isolation, then to terrible grief...
Science's advances have been accompanied by a heightened public awareness of the important role of life-style and environment. At least in the Western world, the combined scientific and government campaign to warn the public of the malign effects of tobacco smoking, for example, has caused millions of people to change long-ingrained habits. An intensive campaign to improve the quality of prenatal and obstetric care--and to get the word out to expectant mothers--has greatly cut infant-mortality rates. Improvements in emergency care, hospital methods and community safety standards have also done their part...
...article Time published. I publicly wish to again admit my involvement in the phony dirty-tricks scandal against the Republican Party and President Bush. There was never any g.o.p. plot against Perot. It was all a political hoax to remove Bush. To all those who continue to lie, malign and mislead, I forgive you and will pray for you. SCOTT BARNES Lake Isabella, California