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...first glance, Silence seems to be criticizing Communism without restraint. The villain is an ambitious young member who brings false charges of "deceiving the Party" against a public-spirited young Communist. The charges stick, the hero is expelled from the party, the villain moves on to bigger and better betrayals-and nobody smells a rat in the apparat...
They split the first four games and things were getting hot as the final game began. The temperamental Niederhoffer, who will not tolerate the slightest interference with his stroke, has always been a gallery villain because of his frequent let calls. The indignant Howe, just as relentless on lets, tends to give less than sufficient room for his opponent to manipulate as a match tightens...
Director Elio Petri is apparently the chief villain, both for taking on so uneventful a screenplay and for composing such ugly shots. Petri used the technicians and the cameraman who worked with Antonioni on Red Desert. He has proven how effectively a film-maker can nullify such technical contributions by composing his images with the carelessness of a soap-opera director...
Those who survived lived to witness a crowning irony: Governor Drake, the villain of the episode, was continued in office for two years as though nothing had happened, and then was allotted a liberal sinecure as "head of the Senior Merchants...
That was undoubtedly true-though the fact was of small solace to the steel industry, which once again found itself publicly cast as villain in a U.S. economic melodrama. It began on the last day of 1965, when the Bethlehem Steel Corp. announced that it was raising its prices on structural steel by $5 a ton, to an average $119. Poor "Bessie." No sooner had the word hit the wire-service tickers than Gardner Ackley, chairman of the President's Council of Economic Advisers, denounced the increase as inflationary; he later charged that Bethlehem was profiteering from the Viet...