Word: villainized
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...Gazzara, who plays the ambitious prosecuting attorney, and Lorne Greene, the defense attorney. Nor does Pleshette yet know the fate of the character he is playing. But after reading and talking endlessly about Oswald, Pleshette concludes that he was "a mystery man, as much a victim as a villain...
...trouble is that the writers could not talk anybody into letting them blow up another roller coaster, or even seriously threaten one, for the climax. So the movie just sort of peters out as everybody chases about at Los Angeles' Magic Mountain park. Couldn't hero and villain at least have wrestled around up there atop the scary Magic Mountain coaster? Why did they bring Segal's daughter near the ride if they were not going to put her on it and thus into thrilling jeopardy...
...York's banks hungering for Arab oil revenues to fend off a looming liquidity crunch; a spreading Middle Eastern arms race, with the U.S. shipping ultramodern weaponry to all takers in a frenetic struggle to retain influence and hold the Soviets at arm's length. The villain is the Shah of Iran, who appears as a double-dealing megalomaniac bent on re-establishing the Persian empire by military conquest, and secretly developing a nuclear arsenal with which to blackmail his Arab neighbors. By story's end, the Western world is in shambles, with America's banks...
...violently inflationary year of 1974, sugar seemed to many consumers an even bigger villain than oil. A combination of rising demand and crop losses due to bad weather caused the price per pound of raw sugar delivered in New York to multiply almost six times between January and November, to a high of 64^0. Angry consumers organized boycotts, but growers believed that they would not succeed. They thought sugar was one of those little luxuries that people would pay almost anything...
...italics were his. Like his 19th century compatriots, James perceived Nature as a capital villain equipped with an arsenal of droughts and floods, hurricanes and plagues. What better use of the national zeal than to tame these forces for the commonweal...