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...know, you may not believe this, but in some ways I'm a loner. I'm a loner particularly when things go bad. I retreat within myself. Well, one of my problems this campaign has been that I have been in trouble, and I've become more and more of a loner. Even after all my years in public life, I don't really feel I understand the press. Sometimes I think if I make myself too available, you fellows will think I'm trying to do a snow job. This surprises you, doesn...
...detached from life, while Solzhenitsyn is combative, determined." In a time of unprecedented dissent in Russia, Solzhenitsyn stands at the moral center of the movement to cleanse Russia of the spirit of Stalinism. His role is symbolic, since he himself is not an activist but a loner, aloof except where his own works are involved. But he understands as well as any of Russia's great writer-dissenters of the past what he is about. He could be speaking of himself: "One can build the Empire State Building, discipline the Prussian army, raise the official hierarchy above the throne...
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...
...artistic ability. He remains, at best, only a fair draftsman and a thoroughly pedestrian stylist. Nonetheless, his wild-eyed subjects possess considerable appeal for the public that has recently developed an interest in astrology, numerology and other forms of mysticism. Graham, who thought of himself as an eccentric loner, often said that his work was not intended to be beautiful, but to convey information about the occult that would be recognizable only to a few. By the quirks of history, that pronouncement adds up to a surefire formula for popular success...
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...