Word: villainously
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Rachman looked the part of an Ian Fleming villain. Short and fat, with grotesquely tiny hands and feet, he had no neck, a bald head shaped like a soccer ball, and sunken blue eyes always hidden behind dark glasses. He dressed flashily, wore elevator shoes of crocodile leather. It amused him to watch naked lady wrestlers, and he had a fetish about hygiene, insisting that all his silverware be sterilized and un touched by human hands. More than most men, Rachman loved money and women...
...mountain of bird droppings on Crab Key? 007 paddles over to have a look around. On the beach he meets Ursula Andress, a skindiver who seems to wear her air tanks in front, but before 007 can find time to examine the lady's apparatus the villain appears...
...tale invites comparison with those classics of darkened childhood, Richard Hughes's High Wind in Jamaica and William Golding's Lord of the Flies. Novelist Gloag has named his adult villain Captain Hook, presumably after J. M. Barrie's piratical menace in Peter Pan. One does not have to believe in fairies, however, to give cold credence to the awful reality of Gloag's matriolatrous, patricidal tribe of tots...
...Greatest Villain. For the most part, Elwin lets the letters speak for themselves; they provide fascinating glimpses into a marriage in which the very emotional vocabularies of the partners were almost totally different. When Annabella first met Byron in 1812, he had just published Childe Harold and was the hero of London society. Annabella reported to her mother that she found him "a very bad, very good man ... He is sincerely repentant for the evil he has done, though he has no resolution (without aid) to adopt a new course of conduct and feeling." It took her no time...
...they blundered into marriage. ("It never rains but it pours," said Byron dryly to a companion when he received Annabella's note of acceptance.) Strangely, Byron was the more upset of the two when the marriage broke up. While Annabella was congratulating herself on escaping "from the greatest Villain that ever existed," Byron was writing pleading and apparently sincere letters asking for a reconciliation. But Annabella by that time was a woman with an obsession: in self-justification, she had already begun assembling the letters and documents that would comprise the Lovelace Papers, the collection of which would occupy...