Word: villainizing
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...still performed (see pictures opposite). Its hero, like many others in rough & tumble Kabuki tales, is a typical Oriental Superman who can lop off the heads of many opponents at a blow, lift houses with one finger, crush temple gates with his bare hands. The plot: a villainous lord, who has usurped the rule of the country, orders the decapitation of some people accused of losing a precious sword. Suddenly the brave hero appears, shouting "Shibaraku!" He then exposes the true culprit, the villain's henchman, thus saves the innocents' lives...
...pull the kingdom down, and the stage is set for love to conquer all. To satisfy the censors, somebody has to take the rap for Burt's misdemeanors, but by this time the audience will probably be too heavily stunned with Technicolor and improbabilities to wonder why the villain should turn out to be German militarism...
...attacks others: first he twists a fatuous psychiatrist's tail, then twists the knife in an emotionally frayed and rattled Queeg. And there is the final celebration scene, a sort of moral coda in which Greenwald, more than mildly drunk, berates his own tactics and denounces the real villain of the "mutiny...
...magicians, is once more acknowledged to have some valuable uses in psychiatry. A few weeks later, Cartoonist Dallis had Dr. Rex pitted against an artful con man named Landros, who was practicing hypnotism for his own evil purposes on a wealthy young matron. In the course of snagging the villain and turning him over to the law, Dr. Rex gives his readers a cautionary capsule on the value of hypnosis, and why only qualified physicians should make...
...Laureanistas are often called Bluebirds-blue being the Conservative color and bird the local slang for villain. One area where the Bluebirds are on the rampage is the south. Two months ago they hacked 14 Liberal farmers to death and hurled their bodies into the Bache River. Terrorized Caicedonia, 125 miles west of Bogota, is another Bluebird battlefield. A two-street town with a population of only 5,200, it has seen twelve murders in the last six weeks. Twenty others have been killed in the area around Caicedonia...