By day, he makes corporate villains tremble in their dress socks; by night, they're trembling barefoot.

Tempting as it is to single out a corporate or individual villain here, the incident is a cultural short-circuit.

His high-profile slugging of corporate villains plays well in his populist state.

CHUNG IN YUNG, who declined to be interviewed, is not a corporate villain.

In Mr. Grisham's novel, the corporate villain was a tobacco company, a bad guy already pilloried in "The Insider."

Knight began by saying that he had been painted as a "corporate crook, the perfect corporate villain for these times."

In Hiaasen's scenario, the Everglades are dying as a result of agricultural contaminants dumped by greedy corporate villains, aided and abetted by corrupt or complacent officials.

Just this week, "Erin Brockovich," a Hollywood blockbuster that paints the utility as a 1990's corporate villain, was nominated for five Oscars.

The hotshot private eye V. I. Warshawski is back in south Chicago for her high school reunion and on the trail of corporate villains.

Over the past decade or so, Americans turned the tobacco industry into the great common foe, a true corporate villain.