Word: loner
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Cecola's former classmates described him as aquiet loner. "He kept to himself very much, thoughhe was friendly with everybody," said second-yearstudent John Lindsey. "I think we're all a bitsurprised...
...Westerns, a genre he favored, Reagan enjoyed playing the brave loner facing a mob: "If one can't handle this" he tells a deputy in Law and Order (1953), "two won't be any good." In fact, the author notes, the old cattle towns relied upon conscientious law enforcement; Bat Masterson and Wyatt Earp were both forced out of Dodge City as troublemakers. During World War II, Reagan acted in propaganda films for the Army. Here, too, facts became servants of the Message, and they remained so in peacetime. "By the time I got out of the Army Air Corps...
...hardened 36-year-old, embodies bull- headed heroism. As a boy, Dallas read Zane Grey, trapped animals on Michigan's Upper Peninsula, and harbored a dream to head West. In 1968 he did, and started as a buckaroo on a ranch in Oregon. Acquaintances called him gentle, quiet, a loner. Dallas earned a reputation as a hard worker and a fellow who'd stare you straight in the eye. "Buckarooing," he once explained in charming simplicity, "is just a man doing his job, working with livestock on horseback, doing whatever work that has to be done on horseback regarding livestock...
...remained murky. He was permitted brief visits with a U.S. embassy official and with Connecticut Democratic Senator Christopher Dodd, who helped secure Hasenfus' release. Dodd reported that Hall "is in good health, he's being treated well." The portrait of Hall that began to emerge was of a troubled loner with a Rambo complex that has earned him the nickname Sambo. "In his imagination he was going to be Rambo, but it backfired in his face," says Thomas Posey, director of Civilian Materiel Assistance (C.M.A.), an Alabama-based paramilitary group that expelled Hall 15 months ago after he pressed...
...realm of genre moviemaking here. But nobody does that with greater conviction, energy and unpatron-izing affection for the grand old forms than Eastwood. He also knows that by grounding his work with a few simple ironies, he can humanize his basic screen character, that of the dutiful loner, and separate it from upstarts like "Sly" Stallone and Chuck Norris. The sergeant's swearing, for example, is well beyond the grunting demands of realism; it is an aria of obscenities and more a commentary on macho posturing than an assertion of it. Same thing with the women's magazines...