Word: villainizing
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...seven TV shows, he has penned 71 volumes of satirical commentary, written poetry and reams of magazine columns and paints witty pop art. He has starred in 13 films, directed nine of his own and still finds time to shill for Toyota and Johnny Walker. He played the villain in last year's ultra-violent hit Battle Royale, and Brother, his most recent movie, opened in Japan in January and will debut soon in Asia and the U.S. Internationally better known as Takeshi Kitano (his real name), he has garnered critical acclaim as an inventive filmmaker (his 1997 movie Hana...
...stories crammed into 159 pages, solidified Carver's reputation but left him feeling that he had ceded too much control to his editor. (He later restored Lish's cuts to two of the stories and included them in Where I'm Calling From.) Carver devotees portray Lish as the villain of this piece, an overreaching editor who bullied an uncertain beginning writer. Lish's defenders argue that he did for Carver's fiction what Ezra Pound did for T.S. Eliot's The Waste Land, i.e., cut out the fat to expose the essential genius within the work...
...earnest critiques of their faith; but the authors of the Gospels, by then feuding with the Jews, calcified those critiques as slanders. Constantine's use of Christianity to unify his far-flung empire effectively declared open season on all nonbelievers. Church fathers (by now influential Romans themselves) assigned the villain's role in the Crucifixion to the Jews rather than to Rome. As Europe was unified under the Cross, the Jews, preserved yet ghettoized per Augustine's instructions, became the Continent's captive "other," slaughtered as a warm-up for Muslims in the First Crusade and as scapegoats during...
...Starring in Weekend at Bernie's III b. Falling asleep during his own speech c. Chillin' like a villain d. Watching Autumn in New York...
...name does not demonstrate a person's intent to vote for that candidate. The voter, at the precise moment he was halfway finished punching the ballot, changed his mind and stopped. The situation is much like the classic movie scene in which the good guy faces the cornered villain and the dilemma of whether to shoot. The hero slowly pulls back the trigger to within a nano-inch of firing, hesitates--and stops. Makes great fiction, but do we really believe that happened thousands of times in Florida? DREW SUNDBERG Brussels...