Word: villainizing
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When cigarettes were first indicted as a possible villain in producing lung cancer, pipemakers anticipated a wholesale swing to the relatively exonerated pipe. No such thing happened. On the contrary, cigarette sales zoomed on upwards to record heights for five successive years. Over 528 billion cigarettes were turned out in 1961, up 26% from 1950. The sale of pipe tobacco was scarcely checked in its long decline. Only 75 million pounds of pipe tobacco were sold in 1961, compared with about 210 million pounds in 1920, when there were 77 million fewer people...
Emotional Neuters. Burdick, who swung wildly, and sometimes below the belt, at American diplomats in his book The Ugly American, swings just as hard at scientists advising the Pentagon. Walter Groteschele, Fail-Safe's villain, is a caricature of a scientist, who advocates preventive war in scholarly treatises and exults in private: "Knowing you have to die, imagine how fantastic it would be to have the power to take everyone else with you. The untold billions of them. They are murderees: born to be murdered and don't know it. And the person with his finger...
...obviously thinks so. But to the reader, Brendan seems unpleasant but no monster of iniquity; his wife, on the other hand, is a certifiable bitch, and her bitchery has very little to do with her husband's occupation. Without much question, Moore has got hold of the wrong villain, something an artist of his skill would not do if his topic had not blurred his vision...
...call it a bar would be wrong. It is a saloon. And very much of the right sort--luxurious red interior, brass lamp fixtures, an exquisite Wurlitzer nickelodeon and, oy course, peanuts to throw at the villain of the melodrama...
...year period. But last week, just a few days before workers with a monthly salary of 60 to 70 new rubles ($67 to $78) were to be ushered into the promised land, Izvestia announced that the third phase of the cut would be "postponed temporarily until further notice." Predictable villain: an "increase in the aggressive schemes of imperialism...