Word: villainized
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...Neddie the Nut finds other uses for the go goo. Is the college basketball squad losing the big game? The prof smears a little witch pitch on the squad's sneakers, and the home team shows a sudden bounce-clear to the roof of the gymnasium. Does the villain (Keenan Wynn) try to steal the hero's secret? The prof discreetly adds a lift to that low heel, leaves him bouncing like a pogo stick till the nutty putty is recovered. Do the Army, Navy and Air Force consider his conquest of gravity a subject of levity...
Bentley saw two major emotional appeals of melodrama--"pity of the hero and fear of the villain...
...villain of John Dos Passos' massive Depression trilogy, U.S.A., was big business. The villain of Dos Passos' latest novel, Midcentury, is big unions. This is certainly the most fascinating fact about the book and possibly the most significant. To Dos Passos, the last quarter-century is an upended hourglass in which the sands of power and the abrasive abuse of power have dramatically shifted...
...fault. Governor Tavares said it was all the work of "Communist agitators," and promised to produce documents proving that the attacks had been organized abroad. Days passed without any documents. Lisbon declared that guns made in Czechoslovakia had been used by the attackers. A leading Luanda newspaper found another villain-foreign newspaper editors. It headlined a story that foreign reporters who asked permission to leave Angola were ordered by their head offices "to stay because important events were going to happen...
...Bedroom, by P. G. Wodehouse. Yet another out-of-plumb castle in the air, designed by the old master-this one inhabited by a tiddly young aristocrat named Freddy Widgeon, and besieged by a villain named Oofy Prosser...