Word: villainizing
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...interim purge director, Chiang Ching uncorked a fresh villain, and one of the least likely: Mao's propaganda chief Tao Chu, who only five months ago was bumped up by Mao to No. 4 rank in the ruling hierarchy-trailing only Mao himself, Lin Piao and the durable Red Chinese Premier Chou Enlai. Until last week Ta' Chu had been one of the few certified Mao heroes of the revolution, providing much of the verbal firepower for the purge. But Chiang Ching denounced Tao Chu last week as a "bourgeois reactionary," one of the dirtiest epithets...
...produced as totems are, to keep up tribal morale." As for liberalism, said Muggeridge, it is "really just a death wish. We liberals are so made that anyone who wants to murder us is a hero and anyone foolish enough to be on our side is a villain...
...decade ago, and even Osborne has simmered down since. Antiroyalism was once such an embattled issue that even Americans-who basically adore royalty-could echo Mark Twain's dictum: "There was never a throne which did not represent a crime." But nowadays monarchy is not much of a villain. And what would astonish Mark Twain is not that so many kings have lost their crowns but that so many still wear them...
...certain charm, but the same can hardly be said of the clichés: the noble old Indian chief ("Cheyenne not want war!"), the nasty young brave ("Kill! Kill!"), the snotty regimental C.O. ("I'll give those filthy Indians a taste of cold steel!"), the cowardly villain ("Don't shoot! Don't shoot!") who cheats at cards and secretly sells repeating rifles to the hostiles...
...PROFESSIONALS. A real old-fashioned shoot-'em-up, with enough good guys and bad guys to populate the entire Western frontier. On the side of justice are Gunslingers Lee Marvin, Burt Lancaster, Woody Strode and Robert Ryan, hired to lasso a missing wife (Claudia Cardinale) kidnaped by Mexican Villain Jack Palance. The setting is a remote bandit stronghold in the early 1900s, the mood mean and violent...