Word: supervillain
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...cannot watch the tape without thinking of Hannah Arendt's famous phrase "the banality of evil." Because 9/11 has caused such reverberations in the world, people have subconsciously endowed bin Laden with the size and force, the diabolical cunning, of a supervillain or, in some parts of the world, of a superhero. The video produces a severely diminishing effect--something like listening to the Nixon Oval Office tapes (though radically different orders of crime are under discussion). The grainy video brings down the image of bin Laden in something of the way that the Taliban blew up the giant statues...
...course, if Bin Laden were quite the supervillain we've sometimes made him out to be, some may imagine we'd have seen some more explosions in America by now. But the anthrax thing and the Greyhound thing and the Russian plane thing all turned out to be ordinary human catastrophes, red herrings, false alarms - "isolated incidents." (That, incidentally, will be the next cool cultural buzzword for this war, replacing the now-too-creepy "collateral damage...
...McCain-McConnell duel, at least, ended Thursday with a concession. Campaign finance reform's least apologetic enemy gave up the fight in full-on supervillain mode, thrusting his pointer at a chart of the fund-raising future and growling to supporters - particularly Democrats - that they would rue the day they bit the system that feeds them...
...Says, "Thatsa a spicy meataball!" b. Received an honorary degree from a Japanese university c. Just bought the Big Ten d. Is one Persian cat away from being a supervillain...
...those who took Frankel?s spectacular alleged swindle ?- certainly a Great Train Robbery for the bull-crazy '90s ?- to heart as a stirringly outsize, outlaw pursuit-of-happiness story, this news must be viewed as a disappointment. To them, Frankel is no supervillain, just a failed stockbroker and all-around schlub who had clawed and cheated his way into the American Dream: a cavernous maximum-security mansion in tony Greenwich, Conn., complete with a fully functional securities trading floor; limos pulling up at all hours, dropping off leggy "receptionists" Frankel had met on the Internet. His stuffy neighbors ?- many...