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...crisis from Central Casting: exquisitely timed, high profile but manageable, with an identifiable villain--an unsympathetic power utility worthy of the mayor's scolding, warring self. "This isn't a natural disaster. It's a man-made disaster," he barked. Only a dimwit wouldn't realize "that in the summer, it gets hot." He's keeping score: "We had nine arrests last night. In '77 there were 850 fires set, thousands of arrests and over $100 million in damages...
Wild, Wild West poses this not very pressing question: Can a comedy--we use that term in the broadest possible sense--costing something north of $100 million hope to succeed solely on the basis of special effects, cross-dressing and a vertically challenged villain? The depressing answer, given the apparently endless supply of adolescents with nothing better to do in the summer, is probably...
...offer would make those close to him wonder how long he?d be around. They?d have to think about cutting their own deals." Right now, with Milosevic?s back (hopefully) against the wall, U.S. officials are in no mood to give any ground. After all, he?s the villain who got them into this mess. But if he?d agree to get them out ?- and let the healing of Serbia begin before its condition gets even more desperate ? maybe Cohen & Co. ought to let him. Better the one that got away than the one that never left...
...decade in which a bull market and initial public offering mania have made millionaires seem commonplace, we have a financial villain whose outsize chicanery and supersize embezzlement may be a match for our gaudy times. Martin Frankel, 44, a.k.a. David Rosse, a.k.a. Eric Stevens, accused of absconding with as much as $335 million through a bewildering web of insurance companies, bogus investment funds and phony charitable organizations, was, in his own charmingly inept manner, pursuing a twisted but very '90s version of the American Dream...
...mean to frighten the kids; Tarzan is not Oedipus Rex. It's a Disney coming-of-age comedy-drama in Lion King territory, with five radio-friendly tunes written and sung by Phil Collins. It has a standard villain: a grating white hunter (whose musculature nicely mimics Kerchak's, thus suggesting their similarity as imperfect male role models for the boy). It has a reeeeally cute baby baboon. It enfolds our hero in a dream jungle, painted in the lushest of sherbetty forest colors and shot in a new, virtual 3-D format called Deep Canvas that vivifies the scenes...