Word: villainizing
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Naturally, young Cash McCall has to pay through the nose for this shocking lack of faith in the almighty dollar, but in the end he proves loyal to his principal and stands up boldly to the villain (Roland Winters). "Accept my generous offer," the hero announces in words that are apparently intended to represent the all-American spirit of rough-and-tumble competition, "or go home and cut your throat." The hero of course makes the merger and gets the girl (Natalie Wood), with whom he lives wealthily ever after...
...guilty as a fellow criminal. The researchers still differed in their theories of sequence: Dr. Eastcott thought British air pollution sets the stage for smoking to damage the lungs and perhaps lead to cancer, while Dr. Kotin thought smoking sets the stage for the air pollution villain...
...intends to keep her son if she has to kill him to do it (she hires the incompetent lawyer so she can run the defense as she sees fit). On top of everything else, the state's attorney (Sanford Meisner) proves to be the sort of leering, sneering villain who turns prosecution into persecution...
Bomar and colleagues review 30 such instances at Greenville General Hospital, conclude that anesthesia is not the only villain as often as some surgeons would like to think. On the contrary, they suggest, advances in anesthesia have produced so strong an "anesthesia is safe"attitude that surgeons fail to take full precautions against operating-table crises for weakened patients...
...Being. Many of the 42 essays are intelligent, imaginative analyses of such literary greats as Emily Dickinson, Poe, T. S. Eliot, Dostoevsky and John Donne. But Tate's concern is with life as well as literature, and his theme is the "deep illness of the modern mind." The villain, says Tate, was French Philosopher Rene Descartes, whose triumphant discovery of at least one ultimate certainty ("I think, therefore I am") is responsible for dividing man against himself by isolating thought from total being. Today's battle is waged "between the dehumanized society of secularism, which imitates Descartes...