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Ford and his cinematographer, Joseph P. McDonald, were able to portray Wyatt Earp as the contemplative loner using many wonderful, contrasty long shots. Many of the scenes in this film are memorable not only because of Fonda and Mature, but also because of the many shadows they were forced to walk...
...College experience of a Nobel prize-winner--at least of these three winners--had its trade-offs. Solow, who was honored with the economics prize in 1987 for creating a "simplified representation of how an economy works," recalls that he was a bit of a loner in his Harvard days...
...minutes after the start of last Wednesday's 7 a.m. shift at the Sumitomo Electric Fiber Optics Corp., that Ladislav Antalik, 38, from the former Czechoslovakia, turned his bile into a bloody mess. Antalik's behavior was not a complete surprise to those who knew him. He was a loner and, some say, not very good at his job; he had chafed under a female supervisor. A few days after quitting, he had returned to Sumitomo and tried to go back to work, only to be escorted off the property by sheriff's deputies...
...Target would never have been a masterpiece; it lacks Woo's usual subtlety in dramatizing the brutal brotherhood of cops and creeps. It has a promising premise, a Most Dangerous Game gloss about a gang that arranges manhunts for macho millionaires, but nobody has much of a character. The loner hero (Van Damme), the woman in peril (Yancy Butler), the CEO-type villain (Lance Henriksen) and his soulless henchman (Arnold Vosloo) -- the roles are little more than job descriptions. Martial artist Van Damme gets to punch out a rattlesnake and follow this moral code: I shoot you three times, then...
...Came In from the Cold, the protagonist, Leamas, was defined as a person who could not quite pass for a London clubman, a "man who was not quite a gentleman." Now, early in his new book, we are told that John le Carre's latest alienated loner, Jonathan Pine, though taken for a gentleman, did not in fact go to "that kind of school." A pungent reminder that the real wars Le Carre has been chronicling -- the class war in Britain, and the civil (very civil) war between one side of a man's soul and the other...