Word: loner
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Eccentric Loner. Some have eyes that are crossed. Some are walleyed. Some figures have one eye socket empty, and not a few come with a third eye in the middle of their foreheads, or still other eyes in shoulders or thighs. Nor are the eyes all that is awry in Graham's portraits. Often as not, they are littered with cabalistic signs and symbols from alchemy or numerology. In one self-portrait titled Apotheosis, Graham bears on his shoulders the sun and the moon, alchemists' symbols for the soul and the spirit. In addition, he has added horns...
Good question. In Hang 'Em High, the year's grisliest movie so far, those seeds are tended until they burst into bloody bloom. Fresh from his success in a long series of Italian oaters, Clint Eastwood plays a leathery loner out to clean up a dirty territory. An unauthorized posse mistakes Eastwood for a murderer and decides that he is nooseworthy, but a kindly marshal helps him escape. Clint spends the rest of the picture ricocheting off some loquacious character actors, getting leaky with bullet holes, and running the lynch mob to earth. Along the way, the necrophilic...
...frame in shape, Evans, 42, began jogging a few years ago, long before it became the thing to do. Last year friends gave him the "Tired Tennis Shoe Award"?a scruffy old sneaker which he proudly displays in a glass case in his office. Essentially he is a loner, and his favorite sports are those that pit a single man against nature, or against the limits of his own endurance?hiking, mountain climbing, skiing, sailing...
With a celebrated conscience that writhed with guilt beside the swimming pool, Hollywood writers sang a song-of social significance. The loner of the '30s film-Gary Cooper, Gary Grant, Jimmy Stewart-always triumphed against Big Money, amid settings of dreamlike luxury, cluttered with butlers, white pianos and canopied beds. Like animated editorial cartoons, their opposition was always a vested-and usually watch-chained-interest on the order of Edward Arnold. The heroine-Barbara Stanwyck or Jean Arthur-spoke with a catch in her throat that accented her vulnerability. But she had a whim of iron, and when...
...theories. A senior Justice Department lawyer is conducting an undercover search for leads to a plot among Memphis underworldlings, but local police and FBI agents-who first hunted the suspect as a member of a conspiracy-are working on the assumption that Ray, a known racist and always a loner in prison, killed alone...