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...their main characters. Body Double presents a familiar De Palma loner: a pleasant enough wimp who becomes fascinated, then sexually obsessed, with a faraway female figure. This time the wimp is Jack, a movie actor (Craig Wasson), and the love object is a wealthy young woman (Deborah Shelton) with a body as taut and talented as a porn star's. Too soon, Jack finds he must share the fantasy. Another man is watching, one who has more violent designs on the woman: murder by a power drill that moves toward her and through her like the phallus of death...
...rank works relentlessly. He refuses to take the easy way out by supporting his father at home and prefers to contradict his naturally affectionate nature and become a drifting loner. He defies and hides his familial devotion and sacrifices almost all human comforts for his work. Yet he is still tied to his family by his ambition to restore it to its former glory. He is bound to support and maintain his father and brothers by a deep sense of loyalty and pride, but he shuns any personal contacts...
...preserve the loner ideal as an act of national defensiveness, to protect the country from conceding that it is too much alone in the world? Before the Second World War, a great many Americans sought international isolation. Once the nation be came a superpower it achieved more isolation than anyone ever dreamed of; in a bipolar world, both poles are alone. The individualist Henry David Thoreau called America "The Great Western Pioneer whom the nations follow." Do they indeed? All right, then, says the proud country: If we would be left alone, let us be' alone gloriously, ruggedly...
Although Turkle suggests that computers have positive qualities-they teach math to the unscientific, for instance-addiction to them is a way to avoid human emotion. Jarish, 12, is a loner who relentlessly plays video games because, unlike people, they obey strict rules. "You walk out of the arcade," he says, "and it's ... nothing that you can control." Arthur, 34, bought a computer to speed up his architectural business, but spends hours at the console, "poking" and "peeking" into programs, an experience he likens to a sexual kick. Says he: "Sometimes I feel guilty when...
...that the real cause of death was Sirhan Sirhan. David was more sensitive and inward than most other Kennedy males. He did not display quite the same sharp, aggressive self-confidence that came down the line to sons and grandsons from Ambassador Joseph Kennedy. David tended to be a loner. Bobby Kennedy, perhaps because he was a third son himself and knew the difficulties of struggling along in the middle of the pack in a large family, paid special attention to David. He gave him more of his time. He often brought David to his Senate office on Saturdays...