Word: villainization
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...night belongs to the evil stepsisters, played by Adriana Suarez and Jennifer Glaze. Glaze, as the taller and clumsier of the two, sends the audience into guffaws with her ditzy facial expressions and ridiculously bad dancing. As the shorter and meaner daughter, Suarez is the kind of villain you love to hate--she pushes, pulls and grabs toys and fans away from her sister just as Glaze starts to admire them. The loudest applause came when the sisters try on Cinderella's lost slipper: Glaze finally fought back, slapping Suarez and pretending to throttle her. These two dancers combine impressive...
...House session. Refusing to recount his discussion with President Clinton, Netanyahu said merely that "the U.S. has its positions; we have ours" -- then proceeded to hold forth at length on his views in a televised news conference. Netanyahu criticized what he described as the image of Israel as the villain in the current impasse. He ticked off five obligations that the Palestinians had violated for five that the Israelis had fulfilled, and bitterly charged the press with the task of presenting the real truths of Israeli innocence. He accused Yasser Arafat of seeming to tolerate terrorism against Israel. "There will...
...Westerner who gave a dinner for Berezovsky says his bodyguards were posted on each floor of her nine-story apartment block. Berezovsky has publicly been accused of complicity in several murders; he denies all this and claims that in murder plots, he is always the target, not the villain...
...film Star Wars is not about video games and woozy echoes of love [CINEMA, Feb. 10]. It is a study of archetypes and an expression of the unconscious collective experience of humankind. Star Wars has it all: hero, villain, magic weapon, quest and heroine. We have been rewriting this story throughout time; only the names have been changed to modernize it. Shakespeare would have loved it. LISA BYRD Malvern, Arizona...
...Meryl Streep, the most honored actress of her generation, in her first TV movie in 20 years. In the recent Marvin's Room, Streep played the selfish mother of a troubled child. But ...first do no harm" is better--less because of its heroine than because of its collective villain: the doctors to whom we entrust our lives...