Word: villainizing
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Jack Lemmon is the hero-a buck private and bigtime operator in a unit waiting to be shipped home from Europe after World War II. TV's Ernie Kovacs is the villain-the unit's second-in-command, who is bound and determined, as soon as he is mustered out, to run for the U.S. Senate. In his first movie role, Comic Kovacs is approximately terrific, the funniest new funnyface that has been seen on the screen in years. His sneeringly ingratiating personality has all the morbid fascination of a mentholated cigar...
After the Russians got their Sputnik into its orbit, an Administration official said he felt an urge to "strangle" Budget Director Percival Brundage. But the Administration has budgeted for Vanguard all the funds that the men who run the project asked for ($110 million so far). And that stock villain, interservice rivalry, did not slow up the project, according to Vanguard scientists. In fact, the scientists, from Dr. Hagen down, insist that Vanguard has not failed, that it will reach its basic goal of orbiting a satellite before...
...high places are aware of one thing-that a big shot in Moscow has a pet scheme of his own regarding drainpipes, and that no Soviet citizen should ever, if he values his security, "get in the way of influential people." As Bureaucrat Drozdov, the novel's villain, tells Lopatkin: "Your mistake consists in being an individual on his own. The lone wolf is out of date." To his wife Nadia. Drozdov is even franker. "Whenever [Lopatkin] came to see me," he says, "he always held his head like this" -and Drozdov throws his head up in a proud...
...wild hope that reality has at last broken through the interminable bad movie of life. But the film grinds on, the director calls for the cinema dramatics of the great confrontation scene, and Nella can find neither hatred nor pity in her heart -only boredom with this ridiculous villain. But Grandma, who does not realize she is merely a character actress, demands vengeance. Uncle Albert, as exhausted by heroics as Nella, seeks out Gaseler and knocks him down. "Cut!" cries the invisible director...
...Washington housewife with murder on her mind, "he just rides around in that white Thunderbird and never even comes." The counterplay comes from the housewife who has discovered a reliable Mr. Fixit, a possession as chic today as the little dressmaker who could copy the latest Paris fashions. Whether villain or hero, the repairman is indispensable; he dominates a vast area of dripping faucets, faulty percolators and a host of unanswered telephone calls for help-and all because the moneyed U.S. public has made...