Word: villainized
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...even higher, rivaling education as the single greatest state expenditure. And when all those tax revenues provided by the booming '90s economy dried up, Medicaid costs became impossible to pay - leading to dilemmas like Mississippi's. Neither the governor nor the legislature wants to be the villain who takes people's health coverage away, and so in many states, the government is performing incredible fiscal tricks, diverting money from tobacco settlements or reserve funds to cover costs for now. In other states, the governments are cutting back on Medicaid and hoping to survive voters' anger in November. Either...
...battle over campaign-finance reform, Kentucky Senator Mitch McConnell--the reform bill's chief opponent--has long been cast as a villain by the media. And when a media villain needs a lawyer, who better than Ken Starr? Just 24 hours after the bill finally passed, McConnell introduced a legal dream team led by the former special counsel. It will ask the Supreme Court to kill the new law. Senators John McCain and Russ Feingold always knew this would happen if their bill passed. The congressional fight was just a prelude to the main event: asking nine Justices to decide...
...main villain is unconvincing. The college chaplain and former admissions tutor who told the reporter his money would talk, Rev. John Platt, is described by former students as devoted to their welfare and assiduous in touring state schools to encourage applications from bright kids without money. He wasn't seeking a bribe for himself, but worrying about Pembroke - which he cheerfully described as "poor as shit...
...Curtis' Sidney. Mackendrick mentioned the Ben Jonson play to the actors as they shot outside "21" late one night; but he might also have said that Sidney was the fly to J.J.'s taut, watchful spider, and 52nd Street was his web. Whatever Sidney's floating status as villain and victim, Curtis was the victor in the movie. I'll bet that when he first read the script he thought exultantly, "That's me all over!" Curtis may have spent the 50s playing pretty boys at Universal, but he was still Bernie Schwartz from the Bronx, and "Sweet Smell" gave...
...brother Jonathan is the obligatory bad guy. Portrayed by Robert A. O’Donnell ’04, he is a serial killer that happens to choose an inopportune time to visit his childhood home. O’Donnell does an excellent job as the villain, lending Jonathan an appropriately sinister voice and laugh...