Word: villainizing
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...Country club dues and assessments are rising fast. In the past few years, dues doubled (to $350-$1,000 plus 20% federal tax) in some clubs; they went up as much as 120% in Detroit alone last year, almost 20% in Los Angeles in the past few months. The villain is the cost spiral that hits country clubs so hard that only the biggest operate in the black. The average club, according to accountants Horwath & Horwath, comptrollers general of the country club set, suffered a 7% operating loss last year...
...Trujillo Jr. La Novak, sighing loudly enough for even the most quote-weary columnist to hear clearly, sounded like a damsel in the dragon's clutch: "I don't know whether I'll ever see him again. Now that he's been painted as a villain, it has spoiled everything. We had a beautiful friendship. He was so interesting and nice...
...pathologically fearful Aunt Tessie, the goyim are a barbarous yet crafty race who corrupt whatever they touch. His best friend, Danny Schorr, begins palling around with gentiles and soon he has got into trouble with the police, changed his name to Shaw and become the most triple-dyed villain since East Lynne. And one of his schoolmates, pretty Dora Dienst. listens to the. siren song with the seemingly inevitable result: she becomes a boozy prostitute and a monument of perfidy...
mischievous villain, bluidie bleckguaird...
...were a director, a movie cameraman and a lighting expert. Tors's pretty secretary, Zale Parry, glided about the group, taking notes on a slate. The movie camera, encased in a weightless "blimp," focused on the desperate struggle of Actor Lloyd Bridges as he grappled with a villain who might have come from Mars...