Word: villainously
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...know thee well. A serviceable villain...
...restraint made the opera's few moments of overt action all the more effective. As Hero Siegmund and Villain Hunding waged their battle at the end of Act II, a single, blinding white beam split the backdrop, silhouetting the struggle in all its throat-catching violence. When Wotan summoned the magic fire at the finale, the blackness was pierced by a single red spot, transforming Wotan's spear into a tongue of flame; in the inexplicit staging, these moments stood out in a relief that old-fashioned literalness could never achieve. The orchestra, which Von Karajan subdued...
...linked them all. The eventual resolution is placed in the hands of the one person least caught up in the life of the jungle of cities-the crippled Oklahoma soldier (Beau Bridges). The Incident thus plausibly proposes the desiccating, depersonalizing pressure of urban life itself as the probable villain. And Director Larry Peerce moves far beyond his 1964 One Potato, Two Potato in welding his cast of adept Hollywood second-string players (among them, Thelma Ritter, Jack Gilford, Jan Sterling and Ruby Dee) into a concerted exposition of this plausibility...
Recently, comic westerns have assumed that Cat Ballon had nine lives. Waterhole #3 offers ample evidence that it did not. This latest imitative incarnation lacks Lee Marvin and much else besides. An arguably lovable villain (James Coburn) plugs an enemy with a long-distance rifle, then takes from the corpse a map indicating a cache of glommed Government gold. Before setting out on the treasure hunt, he finds time to rape the local sheriff's daughter. When confronted by the indignant father, he claims roguishly that the murder was self-defense, the rape merely "assault with a friendly weapon...
...being reclaimed from "sour" natural-gas pools in Canada and in France. Elcor Chemical Corp. of Midland, Texas, has hopes of gleaning sulfur from gypsum. And the U.S. Bureau of Mines, Monsanto Co. and others are hard at work to find ways of turning the old fire-and-brimstone villain into a new hero. Those pollutants that belch forth from factory smokestacks can, they insist, be scrubbed to yield a surprising amount of salable sulfur...