Word: villainizing
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...Baffert once commented, "He talks like Mister Magoo"), slighted Sahadi when he asked jockey Chris McCarron, who rides The Deputy, "Who's training this horse, you or Jenine?" Sahadi laughed last when The Deputy pasted Captain Steve by six lengths, and quickly became the media darling to Baffert's villain...
...that Disney labels every movie it releases on video, a "Disney Masterpiece" - doesn't that dilute the force of the term? Why is The Fox and the Hound a Disney Masterpiece? Whatever.) So, looking at those, you'll realize a common feature - the best Disney movies all have _female_ villains. Everyone remembers Cruela de Vil, the Wicked Queen in Snow White, Ursula the Sea Witch, Maleficent, Madame Medusa - but who remembers the fat guy in Pocohontas, the evil dude in The Aristocats, or any of the various gun-toting hunters? The truth is, the femme fatales are the nastiest, most...
Vladimir Putin's election as president has produced a new antihero in Russian politics. Gleb Pavlovsky, an owlish political consultant with a taste for casual clothes and an abiding reputation for dirty tricks, is being hailed as a genius by the winners and a cynical villain by the losers. The communists, who claim the March 26 polls were corrupted, say Pavlovsky fixed Putin's first-round win, just as a few months ago aides to Yevgeni Primakov accused Pavlovsky of a devastating smear campaign against their man and his main ally, Moscow Mayor Yuri Luzhkov. His admirers are equally categorical...
...film Blue Angel, which features the debasement of an infatuated professor, but she has also constructed her collegiate climate as a latter-day Salem, tyrannized by the puritanical forces of sexual-harassment policies that demand some sacrifice. However, by presenting neither character as an obvious victim or villain, the novel maintains a level of suspense, momentum and humor. And though the hypocrisy of the political-correctness movement has been amply explored elsewhere, Prose still manages to find fresh ways to lampoon...
...standard Hollywood film, Dean Corso (Johnny Depp) would be the villain: he sports a goatee, smokes and--gasp!--reads books. Yet in the Polanski netherworld, Corso is the hero, in search of the devil's autobiography. Before it goes both sluggish and batty, the movie offers some of the grace notes of classic thrillers. It's handsome and elaborate, with nicely quirky turns by Depp, Frank Langella and Emmanuelle Seigner (Mrs. P). Polanski, the perpetual exile, has made his most accessible film since fleeing the U.S. soon after Chinatown...