Word: villainized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...people bombarded Congress with letters and telegrams; Ohio's Senator Robert A.Taft, the Republican strategist Harry Truman had labelled as the inflationary villain, averaged 1,000 wires and 2,500 letters a day, about evenly divided on keeping...
...minute demonstration of diplomatic rompings and political perambulating. Groucho, as Rufus J. Firefly, premier of Freedonia, involves himself in an international embroglio from which not even a rapier-keen cigar can extricate him. His butt is Louis Calhern--since elevated to tonier company as "The Magnificent Yankee"--an embassy villain who early in the film loses his coattails, and his dignity, to the omni-present shears of Harpo, the foursome's fair-haired and superbly equipped delinquent...
...veto message was blistering. With one eye on politics, Harry Truman singled out and named his villain of the piece: Ohio's Republican Senator Robert Alphonso Taft. It was Taft's amendment providing price increases for manufacturers based on profits in prosperous 1941 (plus subsequent costs), said the President, which would "compel thousands of needless price increases amounting to many billions of dollars." This, wrote the President, was the "mainspring" of "an impossible bill" that "provides a sure formula for inflation...
Very little film footage is wasted on what youthful horse-opera fans impatiently call "love stuff." What there is plenty of: gorgeous outdoor backgrounds of feverishly tinted canyons and corrals; convincing skullduggery by a lowdown villain (Bruce Cabot); wonderful incidental ballad singing (Blue Tail Fly and a Johnston office version of Foggy, Foggy Dew) by Burl Ives, 270-lb. troubadour making his movie debut as a guitar-thumping ranch hand...
...loving Vienna's favor, they ordered opera performances to be resumed last May. It was symbolic of Austrian-Russian relations that the Viennese claimed a singer in The Marriage of Figaro had been raped three times by Russian soldiers the day before the opening. To Vienna the chief villain is General Alexei Zheltov, Konev's second in command, who is believed by most observers to be more powerful than Konev. Zheltov is a member of the NKVD, is secretive about his past, talks suavely, narrows his eyes when he gets excited, was once a wrestler...