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...turn into the gun-obsessed loner and right-wing drifter described in most reports of his activities between his time in Army service and the Oklahoma bombing? Even if his trial explores that subject, it is a long way off. In a preview of his strategy, lawyer Jones makes it clear he will dispute the government on every point--and take his time doing it. "The bottom line of our defense," he says, "is this: we will concede nothing...
...Mahatma Joe," the first novella in the collection, is the story of an evangelist trying to do one last good work, sending food to people in Africa. He plants a garden, helped first by his wife, and after her death, by a drifter, Leena...
...most of these motel dwellers along the dry plateaus between the Dead Mountains and the Black Mountains, political violence is the last thing on their mind. The FBI discovered that when it arrested two drifters who had passed through Kingman and also Perry, Oklahoma, where McVeigh was arrested. Journalists converged on Kingman only to find that the two men spent weeks watching television, rarely emerging from their motel rooms except to buy beer and food. "I'm a drunk," explained a baffled Robert Jacks on Nightline, after the fbi finally released him. "I just pick up work -- or anything...
Film noir is more than a lighting style. It's a seedy, cynical world view: people are motivated by greed, stupidity and sexual avarice. Director John Dahl gets it all right in his mean, hilarious tale of a drifter (Nicolas Cage) mistaken for a contract killer. The title town is off all the moral maps, and so -- deliriously, invigoratingly -- is this lowbrow, low-budget assault...
Besson has a curious fondness for lost girls making their way in a brutal world. In La Femme Nikita his heroine was a drugged-out, teenage murderess- drifter rescued from the guillotine by an intelligence agency and given a new life as an assassin. In The Professional, set in New York City, his subject is a 12-year-old named Mathilda (Natalie Portman), the only member of her family to survive a criminal massacre. She turns to a neighbor for succor. Leon (Jean Reno) is an inarticulate fellow. He drinks milk by the gallon, tenderly cares for a plant that...