Word: villainized
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...matter that Archie tripped up on his own testiness and lost most of his arguments. As played by Carroll O'Connor, he was daringly, abrasively, yet somehow endearingly funny. With his advent, a mass-media microcosm of Middle America took shape, and a new national hero--or was it villain?--was born...
...park, with 17 million visitors last year. Moreover, Japan is the world's second largest market for Hollywood films, and its moviegoers love action-packed adventures with romantic leads. They have contributed more than $200 million of Titanic's $1.8 billion global box office. But in Pearl Harbor, the villain isn't an iceberg--it's Japan. So Disney's marketing has had to be creative. "It's obviously a subject that must be approached with cultural sensitivity," says Dick Sano, Japanese head of the Tokyo office of Buena Vista International, the Disney unit distributing the film abroad. Trailers...
...Indiana Jones film with handsomer graphics, Atlantis has almost exactly the same plot as the Angelina Jolie film Tomb Raider. Linguist-hero accompanies suspicious expedition to legendary hidden shrine; hero kills rogue male villain, vindicates visionary dead male ancestor. (Can't an action hero ever have a mother fixation?) Atlantis adroitly mixes 2-D and 3-D animation but is short on emotional heft and depth. It would be Disney's rotten luck this summer if its big-budget cartoon loses the tween market to an inferior live-action film with a boy-pleasing secret ingredient. Tomb Raider is Atlantis...
...With his advent, a mass-media microcosm of Middle America took shape, and a new national hero ? or was it villain? ? was born. It was not long before more than 50 million people were tuning in to Archie's tirades each week, making "Family" the highest-rated series...
...Ichiro is also quick to utter such dandies as "chillin' like a villain," "whassup?" "thanks, dogg" and "no pain, no gain." When a reporter noted Ichiro's smooth feet, Ichiro nodded, smiled and said, "They sexy." He has picked up bits and pieces of English by listening to conversations, as well as television, movies and hip-hop. "I very much like hip-hop," he says in English, pronouncing hip as heep...