Word: villainized
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...residents of Cambridge and other communities become increasingly unhappy with the University's actions, it would behoove Harvard to give Watertown a generous PILOT. We do not begrudge the University its space, but it is not in the University's interest to appear as a community villain rather than benefactor--especially after having recently purchased land in Allston. With Cambridge city counselors calling for increased payments from Harvard and MIT, the University must demonstrate that it is truly committed to a socially responsible position in local affairs. Harvard can afford the loss of a couple million dollars a year...
...Time was when Branson could do no wrong in the eyes of U.K. opinion makers; now that he has been knighted it sometimes seems he can do no right. Virgin's reams of cheerful consumer research notwithstanding, Branson came in third on bbc radio's lighthearted year-end Villain of the Year poll. And in December an unauthorized biography by journalist Tom Bower-which seems to try the fancy trick of painting Branson as both a Machiavellian schemer and a reckless fool-ranked alongside Branson's own autobiography on the Sunday Times business best-seller list. (Branson has sued Bower...
...nothing is geekier or kitschier than Japanese video games of the 1980s, back when efficient translation was not considered essential. The dialogue of Zero Wing contains such gems as "Somebody set us up the bomb," "Take off every Zig for great justice" and a chilling warning from a villain known only as Cats: "All your base are belong to us." Late last year, fans with too much time on their hands started doctoring photos to show this last phrase cropping up everywhere from George W. Bush billboards to Budweiser ads to the cover of TIME. Then Kansas City computer programmer...
Like Jackie, Yuen never saw a prop he couldn't use to enhance a fight. His heroes and villains have used chopsticks, pigtails, calligraphy brushes, umbrellas, trash can lids and robe sleeves as impromptu weapons. Another Yuen rule: if it slithers, hops or scoots, hire it! Snakes in 1980's The Buddhist Fist; a man-size toad in the phantasmagorical Miracle Fighters of 1982; rats in Shaolin Drunkard. In the 1977 Broken Oath (the last movie Yuen action-choreographed before he turned director with the Jackie Chan Snake in Eagle's Claw), lovely, severe Angela Mao plays with scorpions...
...Lamour was around in the first six "Road" movies, but her function was what Alfred Hitchcock called the MacGuffin - the trigger to the plot, the prize that Bing usually won from Bob. Women had to be in Crosby movies, the way songs and a standard-issue villain did. But these were jut narrative conventions. Bing was, if not a man's man, a guy's guy; women were ornaments to his self-esteem but not central to it. "In a lifetime of tears and laughter," he declaims with trembling sonority in "Rio," "it has been my discovery that friendship between...