Word: villainously
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...nation's top health post (TIME, July 4). Still remembered are the association's relentless fights of yesteryear against Medicare and Medicaid. Opponents also recall its past opposition to group practice and its efforts to limit medical-school enrollment. Thus the A.M.A. has made itself a visible villain, and is blamed, somewhat unfairly, for the soaring cost of medical care, which is rising at a rate more than double that of the cost of living...
SOMETIMES DURING the course of Agnes Varda's Les Creatures, the hero and villain of the piece sit down beside a series of television screens and begin to play and odd sort of futuristic chess. The game's pieces represent characters in the village of the film. When two of them meet on the chess board, they meet in real life and are observed on the television screens. The villain has at his disposal a trap which, when it hovers over any one of the characters, permits him to play havoc with that character's emotions...
...REMARKING a 1914 secret-avenger thriller, Georges Franju has capitalized on our distance from its prewar society. Judex (1963) is designed to lay bare the moral content of people's actions-- of the hero's as much as the villain's. At the same time Franju's treatment makes us marvel at the beauty of those actions, the beauty of everything that happens in this world of the past...
...large house in Flushing, N.Y., Martin begins developing wolf mannerisms. But he is merely under temporary hypnosis, the victim of diamond thieves next door who have learned that jewels are secreted somewhere in the house. The dingaling and his partner carom like pinballs from stock comic character to cliche villain until the labyrinthine plot culminates in four different endings, from which the viewer can take his choice. The best choice is to watch reruns of Laugh-In instead...
...dauphins of some royal court, dwelling upon their power drives at the expense of their unquestioned professional skill, he is at pains not to take explicit sides. Clearly Talese does not care for Daniel. Yet the book's main characters, Reston and Daniel, are not hero and villain but nearly equal protagonists. Daniel is shown as a careerist who cultivates worldly graces and helpful grandees. Against that, the reader can balance Reston's less blatant but equally tenacious ambition, and his curious notion that what is good for Reston and the Times is good...