Word: villainized
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...breath-stopping ride. Among the passengers are George, an absent-minded professor of moral philosophy absorbed in his upcoming lecture billed "Man-Good, Bad or Indifferent?"; his ex-showgirl-songstress wife Dotty; and her psychiatrist lover, Sir Archibald Jumper, who is the vice chancellor and pragmatic villain of the college where George teaches. More bizarre companions include George's secretary, who likes to striptease while swinging by her teeth from a chandelier; a troupe of yellow-clad acrobats ("a mixture of the more philosophical members of the university gymnastics team and the more gymnastic members of the philosophy school...
...Sinbad, and Caroline Munro, as the flimsily dressed slave girl who is along on the voyage largely for scenic purposes) are not quite so animated as the mythic creatures surrounding them. The movie is short on talk, except for the windbag wizard (Tom Baker) who plays the villain, and long on action, quite the proper proportion for entertainments like this. Sinbad is light, silly fun, and kids will probably appreciate both the skillful technique of the fantasy and the fact that the film makers have had the good sense not to include a single-yecchh!-kissing scene...
...this end, Harvard joined other institutions in asking the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston to undertake a study entitled, "College and University Tax Exemption and the Need for Tax Structure Reform in Massachusetts." In its preliminary description of the problems, the FRB said that "we believe that the real villain is Massachusetts' extraordinary reliance on the local property tax. We hope to show that a general overhaul of the tax structure would be mutually advantageous to the universities and colleges, to their host communities, and to low and middle income citizens as well...
...PORTRAYING MAN as villain, DeCrow cites several estate law cases in which women have signed business documents and tax forms without knowing what the forms meant. After the deaths of their husbands, several widows find that their funds have been squandered or used illegally. The women are then forced to make restitution. The men in these cases certainly don't seem to be exemplary husbands, but shouldn't the point be that the women themselves should take some sort of financial initiative? It is their consciousness which should be raised in these cases. The women were not coerced into signing...
...death of former NBC Anchor Man Chet Huntley, the piece related an interview with Huntley last fall, including some critical remarks about his battles with conservationists over a planned Montana resort ("In the past three years, Huntley has gone from being a national hero to something of a local villain"). A prefatory note told readers that Huntley had undergone surgery for cancer last December and quoted a friend as saying "He has not slowed down at all." The execrable timing of the story was caused by early deadlines. That issue of the magazine went to press March 6, well before...