Word: villainizing
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...past quarter-century, Poet Robert Browning and Poetess Elizabeth Barrett have become almost as famed a pair of lovers to U.S. audiences as Romeo and Juliet. And Elizabeth's tyrannical father, who stood between them, has become as thoroughly hissed a villain as the contemporary theater has produced. The principal reason for the fame of all three is Rudolf Besier's play, The Barretts of Wimpole Street. Liberally sprinkling the dialogue with quotations from the lovers'letters and poems, Playwright Besier applied the golden formula, love triumphs over tyranny, and for a climax had his bedridden heroine...
Franco's real need was hard cash to back his paper money, and last week it drove him to something unprecedented in his 20 years as dictator. He had some soft words for that arch villain of a hundred speeches, Soviet Russia. While Spaniards listened in astonishment, Franco declared: "Once Russia halts her persecutions, threats, and subversive actions toward other nations, there will be nothing against Russia as a nation or Russians as a people...
...real villain in the controversy over the morality of Baby Doll is neither Tennessee Williams, who wrote it, nor Elia Kazan, who produced and directed it, nor New York's Cardinal Spellman, who mounted the pulpit of St. Patrick's Cathedral to condemn it. The villains are the advertising men who designed the singularly repulsive poster which decorates, among other things, a whole block of Times Square in Manhattan. While it is the usual practice for publicity men to emphasize sex in every film they promote, this time they have done us a real disservice, for their work is largely...
...actors, in general, make good use of their melodramatic opportunities. Yul Brynner is gloweringly glamorous as the villain. Helen Hayes is effective as the Empress, but her work, like much about this picture, has been scanted by the inept direction of Anatole Litvak. Director Litvak made his worst mistake in connection with Ingrid Bergman. Her acting is competent, but only now and then toward the end of the picture, almost as if by accident, can the moviegoer see what he probably will want most of all to see on the screen: the fact that, seven years after her abdication...
...business has changed from the freebooting days of the tycoon. What fiction now needs, suggests Chase Manhattan Bank Economist Robert A. Kavesh in a survey of current business fiction, is a "greater focus on the corporation itself and more particularly on the executives who govern collectively. No longer the villain of the piece, the businessman may appear in a variety of roles more adequately reflecting the range and variety of personalities that exist in the business world...