Word: villainized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Perils is a good-humored show, mainly designed to please people who enjoy hissing the villain. Those who used to be too excited to hiss, and who wildly applauded Pearl's always predictable but always miraculous escapes, will feel there is a good deal missing. The chances are that Pearl herself, with her prominent film career and her long, sporting afterglow in Europe, was a much more interesting woman than is suggested in this movie. It is also possible that a movie which showed the making of those first, primitive flickers as it really happened would be good...
...many a U.S. town, children vomited and complained of sore throats and headaches. To some harried parents, the explanation was as plain as the wads in their youngsters' jaws: the poisonous villain must be bubble...
...devious, in all strange-deviousness how direct! Too straight for crookedness, and for envy too serene, too fair for blind intolerance, too just and seeing and too strong for hate, too honest for base dealing, too high for low suspiciousness, too innocent for all the scheming tricks of swarming villain yet never had been taken in a horse trade...
...they sing Rule, Britannia in Moscow? Not quite. But they are no longer being really beastly to the British. Russia's serpentine propaganda currently presents the U.S. as the total villain, while Britain is rapidly becoming the lesser of two evildoers. The maneuver, as transparent as a jigger of vodka, is simply designed to split Britain from...
Dario differs from most novels about Fascism by presenting its villain as a reasonably sympathetic character. Dario's intrigues are necessary for his own survival. His megalomania is tempered by a sense of humor. His friendship for Correspondent Winner seems genuine. Winner, in turn, is both fascinated and repelled by Dario, whose skin-deep convictions are easily accommodated to the changing temperatures of Fascist politics...