Word: villainized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Author. Dylan (rhymes with villain, and is Welsh for "tide") Thomas was born in Swansea, South Wales. He covers his brownish, Byronic curls with a trilby and sports baggy tweeds, green shirts, Paisley ties. Short, cherubic, with fleshy lips and snub nose, he resembles more the robust, hard-drinking Elizabethan type of poet than the common hungry wolverine species. Thomas lives with his wife and two children in Oxford, goes up to London a few times a week, where he works as BBC scriptwriter and poetry reader (he is scheduled to read the title-role in his friend Poet Louis...
...sinful screen career, Miss Davis has played many a fetching, high-tragedy bad girl; in Deception she is merely a hysterical bad liar. Hero Henreid is an unlovable, nitwitted neurotic. Claude Rains, as the hammy composer who keeps telling Bette off, is cast as the villain but, by default, he wins the audience's wholehearted admiration and sympathy...
Naughty-Naught (book by John Van Antwerp; music & lyrics by Richard Lewine & Ted Fetter) is a hiss-the-villain burlesque of turn-of-the-century college life-a sort of Frank Merriwell at Yale served up with beer & pretzels-that had a nice off-Broadway run in 1937. But such things have gone on & on since 1937, they are all much alike, and each one, to get by, calls for stronger drinks and steadier drinking than the last...
While the prehistoric design of the Stadium starts the ticket scramble off with an initial handicap, the real villain of the piece is a procedure for issuing student tickets so antiquated that its origins can be recalled only by the preadamites of the H.A.A. Tradition has it that the cheering sections must be kept inviolate--no women allowed. Under the present system this means that when a student turns in his H.A.A. ticket as payment for one of the seats for his date and himself, his former seat is resold to any male who can produce the requisite ante. Large...
...Making Gary Cooper a villain...