Word: villainizing
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...report on Mark Whitacre, who acted as a whistle blower in an investigation into price fixing at the Archer Daniels Midland Co. [BUSINESS, Aug. 28], suggested that there were people in Decatur, Illinois, who considered Whitacre a villain. You inaccurately cited my letter to the local newspaper as representative of that view. My letter merely observed that Whitacre had violated the unwritten protective code of executive conduct shared by large multinational corporations. I also expressed sympathy for Whitacre and his family for what I thought they were about to experience as a result of what I presumed...
...discovery of Whitacre's role has made him a villain in Decatur, the home of ADM, where residents like Earl Gates argue in the local newspaper that Whitacre "violated the code" by going "public with internal problems." But Whitacre's neighbors in Moweaqua have rallied to his side, painting him and his wife as an unpretentious couple who give away a garageful of toys at Christmas and spend a lot of time with their children. Insists attorney Robert Allison, who works out of an office behind Mayor George Forston's barbershop: "The only codes that mean anything in this country...
Rowlands, Duvall, Quaid and Aull, who was chosen for the part in a nation-wide talent search, all turn in strong performances; Quaid should be given recognition for bringing out the likable side of his character, and not allowing Eddie to become a one-dimensional villain-husband...
...which stars Sandra Bullock as Angela Bennett, a computer programmer who hits one too many icons while surfing the World Wide Web (WWW), tries to be an action-adventure flick with a new villain: the cyber-terrorist...
...give you it's not a classic, but then neither is Jumping Jack Flash. The Net shows the WWW on the cutting edge. The technology out there is mind-boggling, and the incredible things that happen in the movie actually could happen. Jack Devlin (Jeremy Northam), the evil, evil villain, gets into the California Department of Motor Vehicles computer system and turns Angela Bennett (Sandra Bullock) into someone else who has a criminal list as long as, well, you know--it's long...