Word: villainizing
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...real villain is the mercury that makes up about 50% of dental amalgam. In a study reported in the journal Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy, monkeys with mercury fillings showed a jump in drug-resistant bacteria from 9% to 70%; when the fillings were removed, resistance dropped to 12%. It seems the genes that protect bacteria from mercury lie close to those that protect against antibiotics, so bugs that survive one tend to survive the other...
Right on the Money (Simon & Schuster; 255 pages; $20) is the 22nd novel about investment-banker-cum-detective John Putnam Thatcher written under the pseudonym Emma Lathen by Mary Jane Latsis, an economist, and Martha Henissart, an attorney. All the plots center on financial skulduggery, and almost invariably the villain is the least developed principal character, typically a faceless mid-level manager who shows unrecognized ingenuity in concocting a scam. The team's prose is always easy and mildly amusing. While offering less psychological insight than the average TV sitcom, it convincingly conveys the general corporate mindset and the nubby...
...couldn't have picked a better villain," Naiburg said...
...does the Ku Klux Klan, an organization that Reiter calls "an obvious villain" and does not defend for its views. In fact, the Klan's "reasons" is remarkably similar to the one given by the Hibernians: Biblical condemnation (which remarkably is not so "clear" as Reiter claims) of homosexuality. Most groups said individuals have "reasons" for their views: racial discrimination in the past was often justified because of a belief in the inferiority of non-white peoples, religious arguments against the mixing of races or simply a desire to be free from associating with "that type" of person, a claim...
...loan-shark boss who shows his gratitude to a cop, Robert De Niro, by sending him a woman, Uma Thurman, for a week's pleasure. The movie is a little gimpy, and I wanted to fast-forward during the reaction shots. And you know our guy is playing the villain, because he goes to White Sox games and Bill is a famous Cubs fan. But, hey, he's molto impressive. He drops his voice half an octave; he walks like a golem tailored by Armani; he puts his silky style in the service of menace. It's a whole nother...