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See: convict, criminal, hoodlum, malefactor, wrongdoer VILLAIN., An epithet used to cast contempt and contumely on the person to
whom it is applied.
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| Defense spending has been on the increase, but it is not the main villain in this piece. Randall, the chameleonic monster and main villain of the piece, is used to great advantage, whether as a hologram or a real color-changing set-piece. He does this against a backdrop not of history at its grimmest or journalism at its most intense, but of jokes, mockery, bouts of wordplay (a State Department bureaucrat is a "desk-limpet," an Arab potentate has lips that are "oyster-moist from a lifetime's contact with the greatest delicacies the world [has] to offer"), and puns that teeter on the edge of catastrophe: The repressive Arab kingdom that is--along, naturally, with France--the main villain of this book goes by the name of Wasabia. |
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