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...comes from a superb ensemble cast, especially Christie, Michael Countryman as Jackson, Arnie Mazer as the loutish Swede Risberg and John A. O'Hern as the quietly sodden Fred McMullin. The roles could easily resemble the agglomeration familiar from war movies: a doomed innocent, a hot-tempered sidekick, a misfit willing to do anything to fit in. But they enact their stories so convincingly that one cannot help caring about what happened to these boys of summer some 67 summers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: The Boys of 67 Summers Ago Out! | 7/21/1986 | See Source »

...consider these plots. A wily misfit takes on the mind benders in an Oregon psychiatric hospital (Cuckoo's Nest). Hippies raise their voices, and a little hell, against the Viet Nam War (Hair, 1979). A black man is driven by righteousness to lead an armed revolt against white America (Ragtime, 1981). A great but graceless composer battles the musical establishment of Old Vienna (Amadeus). In Forman's American films an irascible individualist is forever butting his head against the walls of official power and getting bashed for his pains. These parables of dreams defeated hold echoes of tales from Forman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Larger Than Life | 7/8/1985 | See Source »

...addict, Scott R. Panzer '88, who owns what he calls a "I rash-80," said that he outgrew the video games habit in eleventh grade. "Before I was a social misfit," he said. "As I started to have a better time sociality, I stopped using the computer...

Author: By Jennifer L. Mnookin and Shari Rudavsky, S | Title: Tales of Term Papers and Fake I.D.S | 4/26/1985 | See Source »

...misfit and eccentric, Glenn Gould was one of the most provocative pianists of the century. In 1964, after an international concert career that had lasted only nine years, he abruptly retired from the stage to explore the potential of the recording studio. In more than 90 releases, ranging from two idiosyncratic versions of Bach's "Goldberg" Variations to his transcriptions of Wagner, Gould did just that. Flamboyant willfulness marked too much of his work, but at his best he had a penetrating, furiously original vision. Gould died of a stroke in 1982 at age 50, but he remains a challenging...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: That Nut's a Genius | 1/7/1985 | See Source »

...love and money, an FBI misfit becomes a double agent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Spy vs. Spy Saga | 10/15/1984 | See Source »

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