Word: antagonistical
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...title promises and more. Its genetically altered space animals stomp, impale, gulp down, and otherwise commit murder in the name of justice for Earl, the story’s embittered astronaut hero. Earl’s chief opponent, the money-minded space official Dr. Frubar, soon learns that an antagonist who relies on the support of ad money and horny secretaries can only advance so far. Plympton’s inventive mind is perceptive enough to create clever scenarios with some sort of reason to them; in the best sequence of the film, he conjures up a planet inhabited...
...Although the pissed-off e-mailers were lifting furiously in the Murr Center and unable to comment on their antagonist, other students were eager to condemn the jock-attack. Varsity rower Michael J. Skey '02 explains he would never have complained to Knobler, saying, "How did athletes learn to surf the net? The only sites I know of are Internet porn...
...Someone was screaming at the John Harvard statue. HUPD could not locate Harvard's antagonist...
...becoming all the rage again--specifically the meaning of that cryptic title. The Fifth Business refers to that all important character in a dramatic form that causes all the action to spiral out of control--without realizing it. Thus, you have the four "businesses"--the protagonist (Clinton), the antagonist (Starr), the love interest (Monica) and the figure presiding over the resolution (Hillary). And then you have the "fifth business"; in the Clinton scandal, it would be the secretary who unwittingly gave Monica Lewinsky that first file to deliver to a horny Bill. Look back at a past incident in your...
...long as these differences help to make a better film, without sacrificing the essence of the figures involved, then they should be tolerated. But trying to fit real people into a "protagonist" or "antagonist" mold usually does mean tampering with the facts, and can portray people unfairly. Although Wigand and Bergman do not mind that their characterizations were altered for the film, the crew at "60 Minutes" have had a very different reaction...