Word: villainized
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...outward appearances, the biggest thing that ever happened in Brunswick, Iowa was the daily arrival of the 6:45, which sometimes came in on time. But plenty of other excitement went on just below the surface. Drury. the town villain, was making a cuckold out of little Bolly Hootman. Slaughter Somerville, No. 1 Citizen, was in love with the deacon's wife. Station Agent Ben doggedly pursued cat-like Lulu, unaware that she was after Slaughter. When the deacon found Slaughter and his pretty wife practicing hymns together in the church and peppered them with birdshot, all these situations...
...tale, Author Cain's high-powered shocker will keep many a reader spellbound. The Postman Always Rings Twice, though it gives the impression of a stark naked love-&-murder story, is actually narrative stripped to its underwear. Author Cain's hero is as hard as any cinema villain but he obeys cinema rules, goes sappy...
...slowly, on thousands of "mysterious cylinders, maps of prevailing winds, nose-blankets of cottonwool," showing how completely by surprise the first gas attack took the Allied military and intelligence forces in 1915. As to acting, the show is put over, as so many European ones are, by that arch-villain, Conrad Veidt. When America has brought that competent film star of Hollywood its movie personnel will be complete...
...every two minutes during the last two acts, and after the first dozen or so one becomes distinctly indifferent about his fate. As a mystery thriller, "Ten-Minute Alibi" does not have much to recommend it; as a melodrama it is of the young-girl-seduced-by-the-handsome-villain school...
...Vridar and Neloa which is free from physical horror, blows, screams, and tears. Naturalism in character portrayal, when it is essayed by a writer whose philosophy is as dark as Mr. Fisher's, must always become picaresque; the ideal hero may have lost his significance, but the actual villain is always with...