Word: villainized
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...questioned that Saddam Hussein is a villain who raped Kuwait and must be removed. Saddam made it easy by being a sort of caricature of an enemy, a heavy out of professional wrestling. There seemed no chance that he would be adulated as, say, Ho Chi Minh was during the Vietnam War. The question in Americans' minds was whether Saddam should be forcibly, militarily, removed now, or squeezed over many months by international sanctions. After the Geneva talks broke up last week, Americans seemed resigned that war would come. They thought it was necessary, but they did not much welcome...
...more neutral observers wonder whether Prime Minister Bob Hawke's Labor Party government in Canberra is the villain or the scapegoat. Agriculture is a notoriously boom-and-bust business. If any single factor is to blame, it is probably Australia's dodgy trading position in a rapidly industrializing part of the world...
Despite such evidence, not everyone shares the conviction that fat is the villain. Critics of this theory point out that statistical correlations are not the same as proving cause and effect. Many researchers argue that there are probably several life-style factors rather than a single culprit. "The high rates are not due to one bad habit, but to our whole way of life," says Mary-Claire King, a cancer geneticist at the University of California, Berkeley...
...hurtling, resonant parable, about a cyborg come from the future to kill a woman who would one day give birth to a postapocalypse messiah, gave Schwarzenegger a million rounds of ammunition and 75 words of dialogue, most notably the ultimate death threat: "I'll be back." Playing a robot villain, he also played with moviegoers' expectations; they could root for him to die and cheer when he kept coming back. As Arnold recalls, "A studio executive called me after The Terminator and said, 'I can't believe it. I only saw you a few seconds without your clothes...
...dozen supersoldiers infiltrate enemy territory -- and Arnold gets to go mano a mano with a space alien who looks like the Creature from the Black Hole. And in this year's Total Recall, directed by Paul Verhoeven, he prowls through a densely detailed futureworld while masquerading as a villain, a fat woman and (least convincingly) an ordinary...