Word: villainizing
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...Joan of the Stockyards three weeks ago in the Loeb Ex, and it works wonders. To feel sympathy for a beggar on the stage and then have that beggar approach you to ask for money forces you to acknowledge your own feelings. To feel compassion for the central villain of the play and then have him ask you personally, in front of everyone in the theater, if you judge him is an even more powerful juxtaposition of the mental states of observation and non-observation...
...site also features trivia quizzes and fan pages designed to foster community (just as, Lee notes, print comics did, with their pals-y tone and rowdy letters sections). The first new series, The 7th Portal--about multicultural computer geeks who travel cyberspace to protect Earth against a villain from another dimension--debuts Feb. 29 at www.stanlee.net www.stanlee.com was snapped up by an enterprising Texas jeweler, no relation, with whom the company is wrangling...
...Gates relinquished the title of CEO. Steve Ballmer, 43, president since 1998, was named to replace him. "Gates' sidestepping helps a little bit," says George Washington University law professor William Kovacic, "to the extent you change the face you have to deal with. Nobody speaks of Ballmer as the villain...
...That's not to paint anyone as a villain," he continues, "but it is a fact of the market...
...Carter alone, the other characters are left curiously two-dimensional, with no real reason for the audience to relate to them, and it's hard especially not to moan the unused talent of the marvelous Hannah in particular. Depalowski is the flattest, most stereo-typical, most singularly bland villain imaginable. The three Canadians, despite interesting flashes, are really nothing more than ornament to the film. And Martin, in Jewison's single-minded determination to parallel his story to Carter's, becomes no more than a rather tedious character...