Word: villainizing
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...Outdated Villain. Though other Western European countries recognized the Oder-Neisse Line as Poland's western border, West Germany remained a holdout. After Brandt took office 13 months ago, both Bonn and Warsaw agreed that the time had come to settle the border issue. Says the Chancellor, who has been invited to Warsaw for next month's official signing of the treaty: "We are not giving away anything that was not gambled away a long time...
...industry is often painted as the chief villain by conservationists, but pollution is hardly unique to capitalist nations. It is often worse in Communist countries, where technocrats toil to boost industrial production with little thought to environmental consequences...
...Korty's mythology is summarily halted, and that he is now the father-figure to be fought against: a cheap cosmic statement which undercuts everything which Sarah and Danny have lived through to this point. Even Sarah's father, who is for the most part merely an appropriate villain, is fitted with incestuous cravings which are as embarrassingly emphasized as they are incongruous...
...most impressive of Joffrey's discoveries is huge (6 ft. 4 in.) Trinidad-born Christian Holder, 21. Blessed with a lean, rubbery face and with limbs of astonishing flexibility, Holder has a good actor's ability to turn his towering physique to dramatic effect. As the puppet villain in Petrouchka, he presents the quaint spectacle of a black performing in blackface and shows a notable gift for deadpan comedy. His terrorizing, primitive presence as Death in Kurt Jooss's antiwar tract, The Green Table, dominates the stage and sends chills through even a sophisticated dance audience...
...great upset of the evening was when the ever-unpopular Russian champ, Ivan Koloff, threw the much-loved Manchurian champ, Gorilla Monsoon, into the ropes for the count. The fans were visibly upset by the defeat of the reconstructed former villain...