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Dirty Harry may well be the ultimate Hollywood movie about cops and killers. Its hero, the quintessence of the cool keen-eyed loner with a badge, sets himself against the epitome of evil, a psychopathic blackmailer who loves to murder. These two types have fought it out before, but never with such violent abandon. Dirty Harry may have its flaws with logic and over-simplification, but its sheer brute force kicks aside all discrepancies as it hurtles towards the final confrontation of primitive good and evil...
Dayan has become a larger-than-life figure, and his black eye patch a cartoonists' symbol of Israeli military proficiency. The man behind the eye patch, a laconic loner, is less well known. Now a number of fresh glimpses are provided in Moshe Dayan-A Biography, a 601-page study published in Israel last week and scheduled to be issued in the U.S. by Random House next fall...
...Daniel Hirsh is a homosexual and a Jew, a loner by birth, design and inclination. He accepts the position he holds in British life (that of a well-to-do bourgeois with private passions locked firmly in the closet), while rejecting both the gay life or the commitments an observant Judaism would demand. What he loves are culture, (mostly refined) pleasure, and a bisexual named Bob Elkin...
...standards for himself and his relationship with the world. The son of a frustrated scholar turned dry-goods merchant, Hopper was born in Nyack, N.Y., in 1882. He read prodigiously in his father's library: English, French and Russian novelists, philosophers from Montaigne to Emerson. He was a loner almost from the start, perhaps because by the age of twelve he had sprouted to an awkward 6 ft. (full-grown, he was 6 ft. 4 in.). When he was 18, he enrolled in the New York School of Art, studying under Robert Henri, then a leader of the Ashcan...
...only child and, though popular, was a loner in school as well. His mother died when he was ten (his father remarried a year later), and he recalls the pain he felt at being the only one in his class who had lost a parent. His earliest playmates were girls, and he never learned games boys play. "When we moved to Lincoln," he says, "I remember going out at recess to play baseball. They told me to play shortstop, and I thought they said 'shortstock.' It was awful...