Word: villainizing
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...Deitch makes no other mistakes. He has fire; he is the old time villain with skulking strikes and waving arms. The audience hears him off-stage and starts to chuckle. Elbows awhirl, tongue rattling, he jumps on-stage, and laughter twitches bellies...
...Grace. In his early years, Hefner was the kid across the aisle in school who was always scribbling sketches. He liked to write up the doings of local kids for a neighborhood newspaper, and drew 70 cartoon strips about ornery Western outlaws, an interplanetary space traveler and a diabolical villain named Skull...
...Hefner's thesis was that U.S. society had too long and too rigorously suppressed good, healthy heterosexuality. Since its growth had been stunted, Hefner argued, all sorts of perversions flourished in its place. "You get healthy sex not by ignoring it but by emphasizing it," he maintains. And the villain at the bottom of all this? Organized religion, announced Hefner with an unabashed air of discovery. Hefner revived puritanism long enough to condemn it for being as "stultifying to the mind of man as Communism or any other totalitarian concept...
...Prescott's conclusion: phenacetin alone is not the primary villain in analgesic kidney damage. Back in his native Britain, he found that some of the supposedly phlegmatic Scots of the Grampian Hills were taking analgesic powders and tablets in overdoses that ran as high as ten tablets a day for 14 years. In a two-year period, 36 patients appeared at Aberdeen Royal Infirmary with kidney disease and "a history of long-continued and excessive intake of analgesics." Besides their kidney damage, 30 of the patients were suffering from anemia, six had peptic ulcers and twelve had suffered gastrointestinal...
...A.A.U. which is easily assigned the villain's role if you're anti-Establishment and against stodgy old men, suspended eight athletes who participated in the Track and Field Federation Meet at Madison Square Garden Friday night. The Federation had refused to apply for A.A.U. sanction of its meet, and the international vested interests have rules prohibiting foreign athletes from participating in open meets unauthorized by a nation's governing track body (which in the U.S. is the A.A.U...