Word: villainized
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Stephen Carter goes to church regularly. He teaches at an Ivy League law school. He instructs his kids to avert their eyes from inappropriate scenes in music videos--and he actually believes them when they say they do. He would make a perfect Agatha Christie villain: he's the last one you would suspect...
...Tyson may be the willing villain here, but he has his defenders among the fans and the journalists who are in town this week. Tony Datcher of BOSS Magazine, a publication popular in inner city Washington, D.C, tried to explain the seemingly unexplainable fondness for Tyson, especially in D.C. "He's the people's champ, who comes from the grass roots - the streets. You know? He's no worse than Elvis, who got his cousin pregnant and married her at 14. He's not perfect." That this account scrambled the histories of two local music avatars, Presley and Jerry...
...with the knowing inflection of a Broadway villain): Ah, yes. Cornell...
...even higher, rivaling education as the single greatest state expenditure. And when all those tax revenues provided by the booming '90s economy dried up, Medicaid costs became impossible to pay - leading to dilemmas like Mississippi's. Neither the governor nor the legislature wants to be the villain who takes people's health coverage away, and so in many states, the government is performing incredible fiscal tricks, diverting money from tobacco settlements or reserve funds to cover costs for now. In other states, the governments are cutting back on Medicaid and hoping to survive voters' anger in November. Either...
...dark chasm of insanity. On more than one occasion, Williams is let loose on an improvised, profanity-laced tirade. These tirades are reminiscent of the actor’s stand-up routines and are drop-dead funny. It is amazing that no one has let Williams play a villain before...