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Unlucky Number. In all, there are at least 30 underground groups in Greece. Some consist only of a dozen men, a resounding title and a typewriter (mimeographs must be registered with the police). But all the groups have a common aim: to weaken the regime's internal and international standing. By creating an impression of growing unrest and instability, they hope to scare off tourists and persuade the U.S. to urge Papadopoulos to hold free elections...
...issue with a girl," observed Director Howard Hawks (Red River). "Wayne is better when the girl is forcing the issue." The romantic backlash has been operating for two generations on audiences?and on his female costars. Says Actress Vera Miles: "They used to say of the old West, 'Men were men and the women were grateful.' Well, that's how he makes you feel as a woman...
...could and yes, he did. The film became a classic of the genre, and Wayne changed to archetype casting. Following the wheel marks of Stagecoach, he became the essential western man, fearin' God but no one else. Tough to men and kind to wimmin, slow to anger but duck behind the bar when he got mad, for he had a gun and a word that never failed...
...films of the westerner have seldom been sullied with fact. As Historian Joseph Rosa showed in The Gunfighter: Man or Myth? (TIME, May 16), "the so-called 'Western Code' never really existed. Men bent on killing did so in the most efficient and expeditious way they knew how. Jesse James was shot in the back. Billy the Kid died as he entered a darkened room. Wild Bill Hickok was shot from behind while he was playing poker. In each case the victim had no chance to defend himself...
...matter. In the province of the Old West, truth is a dude. The good and bad men who belong are necessary fantasies of the national mind. The public pays to see the Wayne western as a native morality play. The greatest good vanquishes the deepest evil and walks into the gaudiest sunset. The difference between Wayne and his audience is that they leave the illusion behind when they exit from the theater. The Duke has always taken it home with...