Word: villainized
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...benefactors of progress, multilingual cosmopolitans, patrons of the arts, sponsors of Rossini and Balzac, vintners of Mouton and Lafite--was shadowed by a vicious anti-Semitic twin, the view that culminated in Hitler's speeches about "the rapacity of a Rothschild." The family became an all-purpose and surreal villain. Karl Marx vilified the Rothschilds as a quintessence of capitalist evil. One contemporary conspiracy theorist argued that the Rothschilds "arranged the murder of President Lincoln" and, later on, financed the rise of Hitler as a bulwark against the Soviet Union...
...like it was safe to be Prince Charles again comes another newsprint explosion, this time caused by a book whose allegations are being splashed across the front pages of British newspapers. A week ago, the Mail on Sunday ran its first of six excerpts from Penny Junor's Charles: Villain or Victim?, due out later this month from HarperCollins Publishers. The irony is that Junor, author of an earlier pro-Charles biography, is once again trying to put the Prince squarely in the victim camp, but somehow the royal carfuffle has done precisely the opposite. HOW COULD HE DO THIS...
...writer who casts a preacher as a fool and a villain had best not be preachy. Kingsolver manages not to be, in part because she is a gifted magician of words--her sleight-of-phrase easily distracting a reader who might be on the point of rebellion. Her novel is both powerful and quite simple. It is also angrier and more direct than her earlier books, Animal Dreams and Pigs in Heaven, in which social issues involving Native Americans remained mostly in the background. The clear intent of The Poisonwood Bible is to offer Nathan Price's patriarchal troublemaking...
...building blows up behind him, Woods brings the necessary mix of swagger, cool bravado, fearlessness and tightly-coiled anger to the role of Jack Crow. It's a good thing, too, since the supporting cast does not add much. Thomas Ian Griffith makes for a striking, if rather dull, villain, leering savagely but saying little of interest. Daniel Baldwin has a solid rapport with Woods and brings a rugged toughness to Montoya, but he can't shake his comical "Baldwin brother" reputation (he's the portly one) and brings utterly no credence to his silly romantic subplot with Sheryl...
...Villain Clinton...first dictator" "Great red dragon...