Word: iago
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...Sixteen people voted one another off a desert island until the last one claimed $1 million. So how could anyone but the corporate trainer have won it? Richard Hatch used group-management skills to build protective alliances, describing his plan to viewers with the glee of a dinner-theater Iago. He was confidence embodied. At 250 lbs. before island life slimmed him down--SurvivorSucks.com dubbed him "Machiabelly"--he had no problem strutting around camp in the buff. Hatch attributed his pluck partly to being openly gay in a straight man's world--in a sense, he was the most real...
...done terrible things. The trip to Auschwitz itself was an abomination, and what followed was worse. But we have this fantasy that confronted with really, truly evil things, that there should be some kind of evil character waiting in the wings, responsible for these acts of malefaction-an Iago, or a Lady Macbeth, or a Richard III. And the surprise is, Fred just seems pathetic, self-deceived, ordinary. Is he truly monstrous, is he hiding something? Does he know full well what he's doing? Or is he a kind of self-deceived, vain, in many ways self-satisfied, moral...