Word: villainized
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...professor during the summer. Professor Wright signed on 22 Kent State and Hiram College students as actors and crew. Then he set sail for a twelve-week cruise up & down the Ohio and Kanawha Rivers. Each morning in port, the students pick the night's hero, choose the villain, and who shall sell tickets and popcorn. Then they parade down the town's main street, drumming up trade for the evening...
...only heavy who throws his weight around to any effect is the Sundance Kid (Robert Ryan, a thoroughly hissable villain). He kills a good Indian in cold blood, murders a reformed she-bandit named Cheyenne (Anne Jeffreys) when he can't persuade her to switch back into banditry, and finally meets his match in a protracted barefisted bout with the U.S. marshal (Randolph Scott) after shooting it out unsuccessfully in a lonely building. The locale: the boom town of Guthrie, and the ghost town of Braxton, just before & after the 1889 land rush into Oklahoma Territory...
...usual everybody wanted a scapegoat -the villain who was to blame for inflation. Leaders of both parties were more interested in nailing down the blame for high prices than in deciding what to do about them. But inflation's effects could not be concealed by any amount of campaign oratory...
...Scobie and his world before. For this world, disguised though it is under African heat, is the same cruel, sordid, vulturous hell that Greene has conjured up in most of 14 books, and Hero Scobie is Greene's equally familiar creation-a sinner disguised as a hero-villain...
...days later, when he strode on to Wimbledon's famed center court for the finals, the crowd treated him like a villain. When he double-faulted they cheered. When he smacked a beauty, they sat on their hands. The big Californian put everything into winning the first set from Australia's steady, ambidextrous* Jack Bromwich, 29. Then he got "tired" again...