Word: villainizing
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...there is a villain in this story," said Postmaster General William F. Bolger last week, "the villain is inflation." But the victim of the tale that he told was the public. Starting next February, Americans are likely to be socked with a huge hike in postal rates, a proposed overall average of 28%. Pending approval by the independent Postal Rate Commission, the cost of a first-class stamp, 15? now, would go to 20?. Since 1952, when a letter could be mailed for 3?, the increase has totaled 567%, more than twice the increase in the cost of living...
...excommunication and then her death. The Cardinal seduces and discards young women, betrays his brother, an ally in the conspiracy against the duchess, and is finally himself assassinated. The audience applauds when the Cardinal dies: Cort's portrayal allows for no sympathy. Cort relishes his role as a relentless villain, stalking across the stage, raising a disdainful eyebrow at the masquerade his sister arranges to entertain him, and reciting the sonorous phrases of the Latin excommunication ritual with majestic self-righteousness. We believe it when someone says "the Devil speaks...
Evil, however, can be both magnificent and foul. The groveling degradation of the hired assassin Bosola counterbalances the Cardinal's satanic grandeur. Brian Sands, as the slimy Bosola, is another thoroughly loathsome villain. Half-naked, he revels in his own corruption and derides the courtiers who hide their inward decay with fine clothes and a gracious manner. He listens at keyholes, squirming on the floor as he does, and obtains the evidence of her clandestine marriage that dooms the hapless Duchess. Sands mimes better than anyone else in the cast. Referred to more than once as a serpent, he slithers...
...Hollywood Hills last year, Obst and Independent Producer Peter Guber (The Deep) gazed down at the urban sprawl. "What would happen if all this burned to the ground?" Guber wondered. Replied Obst: "I don't know. Let's do a book-movie in which fire is the villain." The Great Los Angeles Fire by Ned Stewart will be published by Simon & Schuster this fall; Columbia will make the film. Obst has the courage of his confections: his license plate reads TIE-IN. As for Guber: "The whole thing gives you the opportunity to turn a hit movie into...
...that throttled the Movement and killed it in the end. Fire in the Streets is saved by its heroes, who identify the antagonist of the Movement, the thug who aroused the civil rights movement, the assassin who cut them all down, and who lives today. Allen Ginsberg found the villain--the cause and effect--that Viorst gropes...