Word: drifters
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Commando Forays. Manson is a drifter with a five-page criminal record stretching back 20 years. Born in 1934, to a teen-age mother, he never saw his father. His prostitute parent was often in jail, and young Manson was shifted around from relatives to foster parents to reformatories. As he grew up, he turned to petty crimes, mainly car theft. His education never went beyond the seventh grade. It was during these years that he apparently developed his hatred of the affluent and a loathing for women. In and out of prison, Manson became interested in music...
...brother Jules, by contrast, is consumed by passion. In Miss Gates' intensely realistic world, he is a stunted Nietzschean hero, a drifter and petty criminal who lacks the imagination to refine love out of his shapeless longings. Yet he is not without hope. Caught up in Detroit's summer riot, Jules discovers that his best instinct is for "senseless dreamy violence." "Violence can't be singled out from an ordinary day," he tells a TV interviewer after the riot. "Everyone must live through it again and again; there's no end to it, no land...
...scene was Houston's exclusive Old Capitol Club, where a waiter informed Criminal Lawyer Percy Foreman, 67, that a visitor wished to speak with him in the hall. There Foreman was confronted by Melvin Powers, the hulking drifter whom he had successfully defended along with Candy Mossier, 49, in the celebrated 1964 murder of Multimillionaire Jacques Mossier. Powers, 27, was incensed over Foreman's suit to obtain legal fees involving several hundred thousand dollars from Powers' Aunt Candy. "Look you bastard, I'm mean," raged Powers, gesturing threateningly. "I'm tough too," replied the husky...
MIDNIGHT COWBOY. A Texas drifter and a Bronx loner provide the nucleus of an unusually moving picture about love among the loveless. John Schlesinger (Darling) directs Jon Voight and Dustin Hoffman with a restraint that is often missing from the script...
MIDNIGHT COWBOY. A Texas drifter and a Bronx loner provide the nucleus of an unusual moving picture about love among the loveless. John Schlesinger (Darling) directs Jon Voight and Dustin Hoffman with a restraint that is often missing from the script...