Word: antiheroes
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...only thing that would make his life worth living would be to kill people. He planned for himself a life in which he could kill, escape capture and kill again: This was almost 20 years before the manifesto was published. We’re putting twisted-genius political-antihero constructions onto a paranoid schizophrenic who, when an innocent secretary was maimed in one of his explosions, wrote in his journals only: “Frustrated. Can’t seem to make a lethal bomb...
...hero is Harry Niles, a classic noir name if ever there was one, and Harry is an antihero par excellence. The son of American missionaries, he grew up on the streets of Tokyo and now runs a hip expatriate jazz bar there (think Rick's Cafe in Casablanca with calligraphy...
...hero is Harry Niles, a classic noir name if ever there was one, and Harry is an antihero par excellence. The son of American missionaries, he grew up on the streets of Tokyo and now runs a hip expatriate jazz bar there (think Rick's Caf? in Casablanca with calligraphy...
TRUE CRIME Even firefighters can be bad guys. Joseph Wambaugh's antihero is a respected California fire captain who becomes a prolific arsonist...
...counterintuitive choice to head STAR. After leaving college, he had shied away from News Corp., founding Rawkus, a record company that specialized in rap-metal bands a few years before Limp Bizkit made millions with the formula. He also had a brief dalliance with cartooning, producing a strip whose antihero "Albrecht the Hun" preferred literary pursuits to raping and pillaging. But James eventually set aside his own artistic impulses and joined the family fold. He first took over News Corp.'s small but troubled music division in 1996. Next, with investors clamoring for greater involvement with the Internet...