Word: villainized
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...consistency. He has been the inveterate foe of powerful and protected interests that have overreached themselves. This crusade is much in evidence in Pearson's first novel. The Senator, written with an assist from Novelist Gerald Green (The Last Angry Man), to be published this month. Its hero-villain is a walking compendium of all the sins that Pearson sees committed in Congress. Rich enough to begin with (a construction magnate worth at least $150 million), the hero is a willing and corrupt tool of Conglomerate, a group of large corporations that plan to exploit national lands for their...
...been so eagerly declared a price rollback-not, anyway, since the Administration joined the steel fight of 1966, which followed much the same script. There was the same hero, U.S. Steel and its chairman, Roger Blough, who undercut by roughly 50% the price increases posted by the same villain, Bethlehem and its chairman, Edmund Martin. And there was the same Lyndon Johnson, who declared himself pleased with the denouement...
...Villain Amplifiers. From industrial and military experience, the experts set certain standards for safety. Any prolonged exposure to a noise level above 85 decibels will eventually result in a loss of hearing acuity for sounds in the frequency range most important for understanding human speech. This range is roughly from 256 cycles per second, the pitch of middle C, to about 2,000 c.p.s., or the C three octaves higher. Acuity is impaired even earlier for higher pitches, such as violin overtones...
...blackhearted." "You wear black to funerals and white to weddings," "You can tell a good guy because he wears a white hat," little Black children see a cleanser on TV that cleans all black dirt and grime like a white tornado and they see the tooth decay villain dressed in black (causing the teeth of kids like them to hurt) and they see a toothpaste agent all in white destroying the nasty ugly tooth decay villain, "If a Black cat crosses your path, it's bad luck, "If you want to tell a lie, it's all right...
Perhaps the pervasive influence of Freudianism has been felt most perversely in the genre of the thriller. Time was when characters were simply good or bad, threatening or threatened. But nowadays it is difficult to tell a real villain from a societal victim; too often the bewildered reader is caught between a hard shudder of fear and a soft sigh of compassion...