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Supposedly, Americans are abandoning shared cultural pursuits for loner entertainments on our iPods and HDTVs. But thanks to technological advances, concert films are starting to envelop audiences in a way nearly as dramatic as live events, at a fraction of the price. And audiences--and the market--are responding. Acts as disparate as U2 and the Metropolitan Opera are appearing this month in multiplexes all over the world. Even Martin Scorsese is giving a nod to the audience's higher sensory appetites, releasing his Rolling Stones film, Shine a Light, in the larger-than-life IMAX format...
Those who knew O’Neal seemed surprised by the characterization of O’Neal as a loner in media reports since his ouster. The New York Times described O’Neal as “an aloof, calculating man who during his 20 years at the firm has made few friends...
...even if you are, there’s always someone to chat or interact with,” says Casagrande.BREAKING THE ‘NERD’ BARRIERBut while the players themselves see the game as social, they are aware of the stereotype that surrounds them: that of the loner who is more comfortable in a virtual world than a real one. Not that they find this to be far from the mark.“You picture this stereotypical archetype of the nerd iconoclast who probably hasn’t seen sun in several days, [who] just puts...
...Wind-up Bird Chronicle, 1994 Critics regard this 600-page tome, penned over four years while Murakami was living in the U.S., as his best novel. It stars Murakami's signature jazz-listening loner, but is interwoven with the horrifying narrative of a soldier in World War II Manchuria - the author's first real foray into the dark realms of Japanese history...
...South of the Border, West of the Sun, 1992 Like Bergman and Oe, Murakami never tires of his archetypes - in this case the lovelorn, middle-aged male loner. In this tale of lost innocence, a jazz-club owner approaching his 40s reunites with his elusive childhood sweetheart...