Word: villainizing
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...doodling. At 36 he is president of the Authors Club. His latest novel. Career, pleased his friends, fooled nobody. A specious, shrewdly contrived melodrama of Iowa small-town life, Career rang all the approved changes on the old tune of the unconsidered village wise man, the turkey-gobbler-villain banker, the solid youth who will go far, and the girl with bad blood who has come far enough. It was in orchestrating this hackneyed melody that Tinpanner Stong showed his real ability. And, whether as a sop to his own conscience or as a fillip to his fans' sentimental...
Come and get a thrill out of "Mutiny on the Bounty". It's strong, stern drama, but there's nothing crude or melodramatic about it. For the villain is a hero when he pits his will against the sea, and the hero looks just a little villainish when he revels in tropical warmth while some of his partners face trial and punishment...
Great Britain, he explained, was the villain of international currency manipulation, but the U. S. would foil her. Said the Nevada Senator proudly: "It's a great game of poker in which the kitty wins and the public loses. There is no government in the world that can stand this asinine policy as well as the government of the United States...
...their appearance in a picture, began negotiating in competition with Mary Pickford, who wanted them for United Artists, and Harold Lloyd who wanted them for The Milky Way. Before anything was settled, last October Mr. Zanuck's staff was fussing with love interest, conflict, a villain for their story. Last month Zanuck signed up the Quintuplets, was ready to go to work on The Country Doctor with the role of Dr. Dafoe played by Jean Hersholt. Incidents during the week's shooting which, so far as his charges were concerned. Dr. Dafoe limited to an hour or less...
...each doing his level best to bewilder the unfortunate spectator. All detective movies befuddle us. But this one--oh boy! After studying intently those aforesaid faces in the CRIMSON, it is still impossible to pick out the first and principal of the numerous murder victims. And as for the villain, when he and his infernal craft were bared on the screen, we absolutely could not recall having seen him before. The crimes are so freely sprinkled throughout the picture that the last time someone took a knife in his back, nobody in the audience or in the show either seemed...