Word: villains
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...Like It is really a flawed and uneven exercise for Twelfth Night, it still has its own individual merits. Clearly, Shakespeare was little interested in the early court scenes; and just as clearly, the sudden and unmotivated ending, with its quadruple marriage and reported reform of the villain, comes simply because it's time for the audience to go home...
...rented room over a barbershop, where his mother, Leonor da Silva Quadros, the daughter of a small-time immigrant Argentine cattleman, tried to keep house, and where his pharmacist father, Gabriel, made life miserable for them both. Gabriel, says one of Quadros' close friends, "was abnormal-a real villain with a mania for women, displaying constant aggressiveness toward his son and wife." Pursued by bill collectors, the family flitted from town to town, until at 16 Jânio was finally allowed to settle in São Paulo. He took a year's course in education, started...
...cancer, leukemia's causes and cure are unknown. Largely as a result of the work of Dr. Steven ). Schwartz of Chicago's Hektoen Institute (TIME, April 11, 1960), there is growing suspicion that the villain is a virus. Dr. Schwartz injected volunteers in Cook County Jail with leukemic fluid and, he believes, developed in them immunity to the disease...
...used to obliterate all of the Old World east of Gibraltar that the papier-mâché plot rustles a little. The hero, a Greek fisherman vapidly realized by Newcomer Anthony Hall, invades Atlantis, survives the terrible Ordeal of Fire and Water, frees the slaves, foils the villain's plot, and gets away with the hot-eyed princess (Joyce Taylor) just before the whole bloody empire gurgles to the ocean floor. It is no wonder that Producer Pal "feels sort of like God sometimes''; but he must also feel like the Devil sometimes...
...play, "...I look in vain for philosophy in these four acts." I look in vain for drama. Camus wrote Caligula in 1938, when he was twenty-five years old; and what interested him were the implications of dictatorship. It is to his eternal credit that he gave his villain all the best lines, all the most telling arguments. Desire for absolute power may be a form of madness, but to turn Caligula into a raving maniac would have been to build a straw man and knock him down with a bulldozer...