Word: villainous
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...most recently on saturated fats, whether animal or vegetable (TIME, Nov. 12, 1956). They agreed that several factors-heredity, the anatomy of blood vessels, blood pressure, sex and obesity-are at least as important as dietary fat in predisposing to atherosclerosis. They were unanimous that obesity is a heavy villain in the picture, must be subdued by diet (including a reduction in the fat intake...
...plot: a Roman police captain, Mature's own colleague, orders him tossed into a cell in protective custody. The cop's undebatable reasoning: criminals are a much greater menace to Mature than he is to them. If only bungling Vic had been kept safe in the pokey, Villain Howard and his spectacular doxy Anita would doubtless have been brought to justice several reels sooner...
Dressed in black with shinily greased black hair and slinking step, Richard Waring does a superbly hammy job of the treacherous Don John. When he enters with an about-to-foreclose-the-mortgage leer at the outset and proclaims, "I am a plain-dealing villain," obviously subtlety is wholly out of place. As soon as Beatrice gives him a rose and departs, he makes a big thing of dropping it on the ground and kicking it into a hole...
...greater performers have lacked one or both of these--David Garrick, Edmund Kean, Eleanora Duse, Pauline Lord and Helen Hayes, for example." In the movies, even such "good but not great actors" as Humphrey Bogart, Spencer Tracy, Clark Gable and John Garfield were not able to get anything but villain roles for a long, long time...
...feels unworthy of Troilus, until he proves his love in bed. Love's victory is Pyrrhic, however, and Cressida soon succumbs to a Prince of Greece, who can provide security and a house in Connecticut. The Greek is nevertheless the tool of Mars, who is the real villain, and provides the climax, which is tragic for Ashton and perhaps slightly comic for the audience...