(It did not hurt James's reputation as a misanthrope that the popular video, directed by Chris Cunningham, features children who, wearing silicone masks of James's grinning face, menace an elderly woman in a run-down British housing block).
In this story, Oswald Cobblepot isn't introduced as a dumpy guy with a deformed face and a hereditary penchant for feathered friends; rather, he's a slim of frame and scowling of face menace in waiting, an old pal of Bruce Wayne who's seen his family's fortune and reputation in Gotham thoroughly trashed.
If the individual features that reappear on a victim's face look menacing, ballads give way to rap and hip-hop, which fill the impeccably clean but foul-smelling lab.
At first glance, it might seem odd that a veteran character actor like Mr. Guzmán -- whose résumé includes two decades of lowlife criminals and an occasional jaded cop, and whose dark cascade of hair, pocked complexion, deep-set eyes and preternaturally furrowed brow render his face menacing and unforgettable -- may soon have his own sitcom.
If crossed, they will be the first thing right up in your face, menacing, taunting, daring you to hit me, come on, go ahead, and the last thing you'll remember before you go to bed that night.
They should be facing menaces more dangerous than geurilla fighters and rogue agents every once in a while.
SAN FRANCISCO — On its face it doesn't look menacing: a proposed waterfront development of upscale condominiums that step down from 12 stories to five near San Francisco's towering financial district.
("What I liked was that huge face, that menace and sensitivity," Schechner told me).
Jess Biblowitz remains calm in the face of menace, uneasy about the stock market and the possibility of a military draft but not given to apocalyptic visions.
When a 12-year-old child in Bucky's group dies suddenly after displaying polio symptoms, Bucky must face the menace of a mysterious disease that no one yet can understand or contain.
The precise details of the show, which is scripted by Tom MacRae, are a closely guarded secret, beyond an ominous hint that the audience is required to face a menace that recently came first in a poll of the scariest Doctor Who adversaries, beating the Daleks into second place.
