Word: mavericks
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...robbers movies is not that they are (fashionably) nihilistic, but that they are crass and simple-minded. In their world everyone is contemptible, acting solely out of venality or lust. No human institution can be trusted, and the few men able to derive order from society are strong-arm maverick cops...
...territory that it last controlled in 1967. In expectation of that symbolic gain, Egypt's President Anwar Sadat last week nailed the outcome of the war as "the first genuine Arab victory in the past 500 years." At President Sadat's side, significantly, was Libya's maverick strongman Colonel Muammar Gaddafi, who had gone to Cairo to make a surprising public apology for having criticized Egypt's conduct of the war and its subsequent negotiations with Israel...
...starchy fiancée, Julia Seton (Robin Pearson Rose), and her even starchier father want Johnny to stay in the marts of finance and be a golden grind. But Johnny's dream of freedom excites Julia's older sister Linda (Charlotte Moore), herself a stifled and smoldering maverick. At play's end, she and Johnny flee together...
...Real names of persons and places are used except where they would be most crucial. The conspirators-Burt Lancaster, Robert Ryan, Will Geer and John Anderson among them-are assigned fictional names, but only the vaguest identides. Ryan, the force behind the plot, is wealthy; Lancaster apparently is a maverick intelligence operative; Geer, an elderly man who has oil interests. Such sketchiness satisfies the requirements of neither history nor drama...
Showing their contempt for the politicians who had been running Denmark for the past 28 years, many Danes voted for a party that literally hopes to dismantle the government. Headed by Mogens Glistrup, a maverick millionaire lawyer who boasts that he has paid no income tax for the past six years (TIME, April 9), the Progress Party wants to get rid of large numbers of Denmark's 600,000 civil servants until the country is freed from their "paper fiddling...