Word: villainizing
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...case, old smoothie Bill Dennis, a high scorer on the trope for the past two seasons, will play the here; cast as the villain is Harry Sacks, whose driving style picks up fouls and enabled him to set an Ivy League free threw record last year. Comic relief will come from Paul Shaw, who, when hot, boasts a deadly overhead set shot...
...20th Century-Fox), also in CinemaScope, stars Tyrone Power in India, has been called an "eastern western." ¶ Garden of Evil (20th Century-Fox), with Gary Cooper in CinemaScope, is "a western in Mexico." ¶ Red Garters (Paramount) is a tongue-in-cheek musical western using abstract settings. The villain wears black and rides a black horse; the hero and his horse are both in white. ¶ Johnny Guitar (Republic) stars Joan Crawford as a sort of female Shane who shoots it out with Two-Gun Mercedes McCambridge. A lesser character, Scott Brady, plays "The Dancing Kid," a varmint...
...Crusades were actuated by base motives or were led into ignoble behavior, but the Crusades still remained a noble enterprise. It is the same today. Because Chiang was corrupt, it does not necessarily follow that he must not now be supported; because Rhee can behave like a villain, it does not follow that none of us who were associated with the defense of South Korea may hold up our heads until he has been deposed. If I accept, as millions of other Western Europeans do, that America is destined to be the mainstay of freedom in this null century world...
...reassuring thing about most grand opera is that nobody is ever left long in doubt as to who the villain is-or what he is after. A modern school of opera composition prefers another proposition: nobody is sure of anything. The plots of this school usually have the random malevolence of nightmares; the singing line often gets lost among the soliloquies. Such an opera made its U.S. debut last week in Manhattan's City Center: The Trial, by Viennese Composer Gottfried von Einem, based on Franz Kafka's famed nightmare of the same name...
...chance to travel abroad, kills one wife and marries a second. A sharp voice for his uneducated but shrewd conceit, the facial expressions which change with the varying moods of flattery and hate, and the complete lack of human warmth all combine to make Bare a wonderful villain. It is this performance which is primarily responsible for keeping the play moving, for he is on the stage almost all the time...