Word: loners
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Steinberg is a loner, a cosmopolitan Jewish exile, a refugee, a man of masks, languages and doctored identities, through whom the world's multiplicity is refracted as by a prism. In America, he is both outsider and insider: only he could have dreamed up the poster that summarizes the Manhattanite's provincial view of America: Ninth and Tenth avenues wide in the foreground, a strip of Hudson River, a smaller strip of New Jersey, and in the background a few scattered cities?Los Angeles, Las Vegas, Chicago?with Japan and China in the distance...
...past. Finally, the movie audience now is much smaller, less habitual in its attendance and more urban and cosmopolitan. That audience has, for instance, all but buried the greatest of movie genres, the western, which stated and restated the most potent of American myths, that of the loner forever moving westward...
...secret of Reynolds' and Eastwood's success is that they also have found ways to fulfill the often unexpressed longings of this group, to make that essentially 19th century figure, the resourceful Western loner, into a 20th century character. For what, after all, are Eastwood's many cops but Westerners wearing suits instead of chaps, carrying an automatic instead of a six-gun? Clint's first cop?Coogan in Coogan's Bluff?is a Westerner, an Arizona deputy sheriff who goes to New York City to extradite a prisoner and is soon on a collision course with police-judicial bureaucracy...
...chair, Sadat recalled his days in Cell 54 of Qurah Maydan Prison. He remembered books he had absorbed, like Lloyd Douglas' The Magnificent Obsession and Jack London's The Sea Wolf. All dealt with the victory of the spirit over adversity. Even in prison, Sadat was a loner who kept silent, remembers Moussa Sabry, one of four inmates who escaped with Sadat from an earlier jailing. They crawled through a hole in the roof of the camp's rabbit hutch. Says Sabry: "Somehow Sadat made us hold the secret from the hundreds of prisoners...
...York version of blood, sweat and tears. Koch emphasized the need for further budget cutting and restraint on the once insatiable municipal unions. He reminded voters that even in bygone days when it was less fashionable, he had favored capital punishment for certain heinous crimes. To offset his loner image, he was usually accompanied during the campaign by Bess Myerson, 53, a former Miss America (1945) and a New York City commissioner of consumer affairs...