Word: villainous
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...villain of the piece is Gaspard's aunt, put in charge of the boy because his parents are unsolid citizens who ragtag about the countryside peddling neckties. A mightily mundane soul, the aunt has lofty plans for Gaspard-was not one of his ancestors mayor of Lominval, and another chief of the town's wolf-exterminating brigade? But the never-never land claims the boy; sent into the forest to gather mushrooms, he is soon lost to Lominval and launched on a mad, careering plunge of adventure...
...Cozzens' eyes, the great villain-"the underlying principle that has ruined American fiction"-is sentimentality...
...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...