Word: villainized
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Reputation, of all human possessions, is perhaps the least tangible yet the most zealously guarded. To be known for integrity and honor, most people willingly labor a lifetime. Even a rogue may cherish the mistaken notion that he enjoys the respect of his community. As Shakespeare's foulest villain, Iago, puts it in Othello, "Good name in man and woman is the immediate jewel of their souls." That is why the concepts of slander and libel, and of the right of the aggrieved to seek redress for defamation, were introduced into English common law during the Middle Ages...
...hard to imagine Ford's being convincing as a creep or a cretin or even an ordinary villain, and his career has followed the dutiful, almost square path one would expect from the characters he projects. When he saw that he was not receiving the kinds of parts he wanted back in the '60s, he did what the forthright, somewhat self-righteous John Book would have done. Rather than fritter away his talent as a bit actor on TV car-chase shows, he all but dropped out for seven years, turning down 90% of the jobs he was offered. With...
...conflict: Jack Lemmon torn between the desire to save his own skin and that of a seminary student and would-be priest. Mark Dolson, (Zeljko Ivanek) from the blind prejudices of the cranky and overwright Monsignor Burke (Charles Durning), the head of the seminary and of a true cardboard villain worthy of a ten-gallon hat and a black cowboy suit...
When Anderson looks about for someone to blame for his troubles, he finds Government farm policies only partly at fault. They force farmers to "do unnatural things that are not efficient farming," he complains. But the chief villain, he says, is competition from abroad, where costs are lower and exports are subsidized...
More than President Reagan or anyone else, Federal Reserve Chairman Paul Volcker caught the blame for the 1981-82 economic downturn. Now he is in danger of becoming the villain of Volcker Recession II. To prevent that unsavory sequel from materializing, the Federal Reserve Board has softened the tight-money stance it adopted earlier in the year and is letting interest rates fall. As a result, by last week a bidding contest was under way as banks rushed to drop the prime rate that they charge corporate borrowers. First New York's Citibank led a group of institutions that...