Word: drifters
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...apolitical drifter, Ray ("Cat") Olsen, 23, held ten hostages in a Manhattan branch of New York's Bankers Trust Co. for eight hours, demanded that authorities release Patty Hearst and imprisoned members of the Symbionese Liberation Army and pay him $10 million in gold. Result: Olsen gave up and freed all hostages...
Judging from a sample of its dialogue, Passing Strangers, the original musical opening at Adams House this weekend, can find humor in the most serious situations. When Todd, a drifter, meets Lynette, a woman looking for more than another one night stand, she tells him that she's "really going out on a limb with you." Isn't that a little condescending? Todd asks. "It's a lot condescending. I am a lot condescending. But I promise to keep my mouth shut in bed." Lynette says. "I wouldn't want that," Todd answers "Well," she retorts, "at least...
These queries come by way of Welles's films about disillusionment and corruption: Kane, Lady from Shanghai and the incomparably vice-ridden Touch of Evil. Does Welles identify his life with any of the characters he played or created in these works? Like Michael O'Hara, the sentimental drifter in Lady Shanghai, did he decide early that society uses dreamers; has his work since the seminal first films been that of a disappointed, weary and half-serious wanderer? Does he feel for the sort of cynical moral relativism that Marlene Dietrich sums up so jadedly as she watches...
...occasional stevedore on the Dieppe piers, a drifter, a petty thief, he drank heavily, and then would get into fights. He was even known as "Judoka," the judo expert, because of his brawling...
Walker's version of Guy Clark's "Like a Coat from the Cold" is unpretentious but loving, the lyrical confession of a drifter who's finally found a woman worth settling down...