Word: villainizing
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...anywhere" routine, in which Burns will drive by in a cab, control all the stations on a car radio, or appear suddenly in a supermarket aisle (this type of thing has been used from Topper to Bewitched, and was employed to greater comic effect by a steel-jawed villain in this summer's repulsive Bond film, The Spy Who Loved Me); and three, the "desperation name-in-vain" pun (Denver: Whew! Thank God. Burns: You're welcome...
...chief villain, besides war and the threat of war, is a runaway population. Although there are 2,500 birth-control clinics in Egypt, family planning programs in rural areas have been unsuccessful for reasons that are all too familiar in developing nations: lack of education, religious constraints and popular feelings that in large families children are a potential source of income. If the present annual population increase (2.3%) continues, demographers fear that Egypt will have between 60 million and 80 million people by the year 2000. Food production, which spurted after the completion of the Soviet-financed Aswan High...
...people and his army behind him, Sadat today has concentrated more power in his hands than Nasser ever had. Yet the villager who became a ruler feels alone in power. The threat of death does not depress him, he says, even though he has become the No. 1 villain to Arab rejectionists. "Neither the Palestinians nor Gaddafi," he said, "can deprive me of one hour of my life, if God doesn't accept it." At the Barrages, Sadat recalled a book about Abraham Lincoln that he had read as a boy. "Lincoln was a villager, too," he said...
...nine. "I never got less than the lead after that," he boasts. By the time he was twelve he was reciting Shakespeare before the bathroom mirror. His dream-then, now and probably for-evermore-was to play Cassius in Julius Caesar. Though the world has made a villain out of Cassius, the leader of the plot to kill Caesar, the scion of political iconoclasts knew that he was really a good fellow. "Cassius was sympathetic to me," he says. "He hated tyranny and he was anti-authoritarian." Also, he adds, "Cassius was the smartest man in the play...
...brought a new stability to his life. After six weeks on a liquid protein diet, this former junk-food addict-"I still dream of Twinkies," he sighs-has even lost his famous baby fat. For the first time he is ready to play that "lean and hungry" hero-villain Cassius...