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...they have faced the same narrative challenge - how to build their vignettes of domestic brutality to a satisfying climax - without ever quite solving it. From the moment Raging Bull introduces its three main characters, the moviegoer knows all there will be to know about them. Jake is the loner with a special, terrible gift he can't control; Joey is weak, loyal and scheming; Vickie is an enigma wrapped in gilt. The first hour of the film sets up the situation with a naturalistic vigor and cinematic resourcefulness unique to Scorsese. He knows precisely how to move the camera...
...preside as paterfamilias over the great brawling Democratic coalition, rewarding and remonstrating from the head of the table while all the family factions (workers, blacks, Jews, city dwellers, the poor, intellectuals) passed around the meat and potatoes. Carter won the White House in 1976 as a sweet-psalming loner circuit riding outside the party structures. As President, owing little or nothing to the party, he practiced a cool neglect of it. His motivations were rooted in his own interests, not the party's: a perfect '70s politician. He did not encourage new Democratic talent or ideas; he neglected...
...Court Years nevertheless says important things about our political and judicial leadership, and, of course, about the author. Douglas emerges as an impassioned loner, fiercely dedicated to his causes yet just as seriously committed to allowing his fellow justices their causes as well. He is almost a cowboy justice, set apart from those he calls "the proselytizers." Though he never says so outright--he couches all criticism of former justices in the most diplomatic phrases--he never liked these proselytizers, the most celebrated being Harlan Stone, Hugo Black, and Felix Frankfurter. Douglas viewed the justice's job differently, less...
...than he was in 1973 when, as Governor of Georgia, he appeared as the mystery guest on the television show What's My Line? and stumped the panel. Though he lives in the spotlight, Carter remains an intensely private person. His hobbies are those of a loner-fishing by himself for hours on end in a Georgia pond or a Pennsylvania trout stream, or jogging through the woods of Camp David, to which he and Rosalynn now retreat almost weekly. Except for Charles Kirbo, the Atlanta attorney who is his confidant, and his former Budget Director, Bert Lance...
...geniality, Reagan seems very much a loner. The company of politicians, Nevada Senator Paul Laxalt and one or two others excepted, does not interest him. In fact, he has few intimates in any walk of life. He is not particularly close to his children. Only Nancy seems to receive much real warmth from...