Word: malefactors
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...What is surprising is how many contemporary Americans find Tripp's conduct as hellish as Dante would have. We live at a far remove from the medieval poet's moral cosmology. Where he prescribed eternal damnation and torture, we are inclined to recommend therapy, to empathize, to view the malefactor as a victim...
...television season begins, I can't help wondering whether this will be the year when somebody on NYPD Blue gets to go to trial. In the past, a malefactor who's brought into the station house by detectives on that program ends up confessing. Anyone who wants his day in court has to get arrested by detectives from Law & Order...
...take. At its most elemental level, retribution blurs with revenge. "Some animals deserve to be put off the face of the earth," explains Richard Brill, a retired government cartographer in Denver. But there's a distinction to be made between revenge--a hot, deeply personal desire to hurt the malefactor--and retribution--a statelier and more carefully considered decision to uphold the values of society...
...well-known malefactor" was arrested yesterday around noon at the Holyoke Center area, Harvard Police Chief Paul E. Johnson said...
...strung-out '90s. Part of Pulp Fiction's fun is that memorable weirdos keep popping up in the second and third hour. Part of the movie's skill is that familiar characters reveal new depths. By the end, Jackson's Jules -- in a "transitional period" from L.A.'s baddest malefactor to Tarantino's idea of masculine sanctity -- has commandeered the film. But even Jackson, brilliant in the role, knows that all good films, like the Scriptures, begin with the Word."Films are a show-me medium," says Jackson, "and Quentin makes tell-me movies...