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...Payback gets on the job, and with the help of the computer-literate Gwen and her pet geese--whose raison d'etre in the film is totally inexplicable --exacts revenge upon the villain responsible for his client's humiliation. The final scene always involves the wronged individual confronting the wrongdoer (as in life itself, the wrongdoer is always a white male) and meting out to him his just desserts, the exact nature of which are determined by audience participation...

Author: By Erica L. Werner, | Title: Are We Having Fun Yet? | 2/23/1995 | See Source »

...school's policy is not to interview the alleged wrongdoer unless the charges have been validated by a psychologist, according to McGrath...

Author: By Michael K. Mayo, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Controversy Continues In Agassiz Assault Case | 12/9/1992 | See Source »

Even in these days of rampant white-collar crime, few businesses have been more riddled by fraud than banking. One of the latest lenders to surface as a possible wrongdoer is James Wasson, known to friends in Cushing, Okla. (pop. 7,720), as "the General." The title was more than a reflection of his close- cropped hair and commanding ways. Wasson, chairman of Cushing's First National Bank & Trust and a director of Citizens Bank in nearby Drumright (pop. 3,162), was a brigadier general in the Oklahoma National Guard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How To Rob Banks Without a Gun | 8/15/1988 | See Source »

...world has changed in 10 years and so has Bats. No more Mister Quiet Nobility: he snaps bones with a grin and snarls with happy rage as he maims the scum of Gotham. "He never used to make noise," whimpers one doomed wrongdoer. "Welcome to Hell," replies the Caped Crusader...

Author: By Peter D. Sagal, | Title: A Bat Out of Hell | 4/30/1986 | See Source »

...leap from the private wrongdoer--"the poor friend and domestic tyrant"--to the perpetrators of twentieth century evil is the mental gymnastic that underlies the book's analysis Cruelty and its bedfellows, like our private lives, all have public faces...

Author: By Nicholas J. Mcconnell, | Title: Kind Words on Cruelty | 10/15/1984 | See Source »

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