Word: villainizing
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Compression is evident in the characters, too. Kurosawa's Macbeth is no reflective and susceptible villain, "too full o' the milk of human kindness." He is a sweat-simple soldier, as physical as his horse, and he is played with tremendous thrust and mien by Toshiro Mifune (the star of both Rashomon and The Magnificent Seven), who is surely the most prodigiously kinetic cinemactor since Doug Fairbanks. Similarly, Kurosawa's Lady Macbeth is no ambivalent amateur of crime who must "stop up the access and passage to remorse." She is simply the self and image...
...really is.) But in this western the bald theme matters less than the hairy variations. Item: the big bold badman (Lee Marvin), when he wants a shot of redeye, does not tear the cork out with his stubby green teeth-a routine every Hollywood heavy learns in his first villain lesson. Nosirree, he whacks the bottom of the bottle with the flat of his hand and blasts the cork...
...establish that Eaton Agent is involved may take three weeks. By that time, a patient is well over the hump. Conceding that antibiotics should not be used indiscriminately, an A.M.A. editorial nonetheless suggests that Declomycin be given in epidemic situations where Eaton Agent is strongly suspected to be the villain...
Blackest of All. Old Stonebottom Vyacheslav Molotov, senior member of the anti-Khrushchev clique ousted from power four years ago, was denounced as the blackest villain of all. After his exile as Ambassador to Outer Mongolia from 1957 to 1960, the ex-Foreign Minister had been given a respectable sinecure as Soviet delegate to the International Atomic Energy Agency in Vienna. During the past year, Molotov had become a familiar Viennese sight as he strolled through the Belvedere Gardens or sipped coffee at cafes. But instead of minding his pleasant business, the unrepentant Stalinist a few weeks ago dispatched...
...Wagged His Tail. Peter Ustinov plays the villain, and a four-footed Italian actor named Caligola plays Peter Ustinov in this comic allegory about a Brooklyn slumlord who is magically changed into...