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...help him along in his career. They're taking [as witnesses] every individual they possibly can and giving every kind of immunity that they could possibly have ? people I've never had any dealings with in my life." Agnew said that Beall was out to make him the villain of current history. Said the Vice President: "I don't want any part of writing this part of history...
That may answer the public's need for a villain, but it will do little to solve the city's long-range problems. It will cost billions of lire, which Naples clearly does not have, to upgrade the sanitation system. Meanwhile, the city's multitude of hard-core unemployed has been swelled by thousands of jobless fishermen, restaurant workers, peddlers and dockers. All are ripe targets for the violent rhetoric of left-wing and neofascist agitators. The disease may have been contained, but it will be a long time before Naples recovers from a more damaging illness...
BATTLE FOR THE PLANET OF THE APES once again pits simians against mankind in the fifth installment of a series that with any luck will not include a sixth. The humans are the scarred survivors of nuclear disaster, led by Severn Darden as the kind of consciously hammy villain that kids love to giggle at during the Saturday matinee. The apes make a curiously pallid bunch of heroes. Roddy McDowall, a veteran of three other Ape epics, appears as Caesar, the idealistic ape who led his species out of bondage to man with a few fiery speeches and some sensible...
According to the first law of hero-dynamics, every epic action has an equal and opposite reaction. One nation's hero is some other nation's villain; one man's idol is another's voodoo doll. The second law is that legends tend to polarize and absolute legends polarize absolutely...
Janos Baltar, a profoundly sinuous villain, plays the snake in Simon's Garden of Eden: the spirit of holocaust inside the sanctuary...