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Like Hobin Hood, the once pious Man Singh had become an outlaw first because of a fancied injustice. Like Robin's, his crimes were said to be aimed only at the rich and powerful. He was always generous to the widows of those he had killed. and he was just in his own rough way. But as the legend of his terror spread across some 8,000 square miles of Indian territory, a price of $3,000 was put on Man Singh's head. Through the years, the police of four states schemed, connived and risked their lives...
Relentless in his determination to catch the outlaw, Dixit set a specially trained company of Gurkha police combing the jungle for his quarry. As an added precaution, he himself climbed to a mountain shrine in Amarnath to ask help of the god Siva. One day last week, as Man Singh sat resting under a banyan tree near the village of Kakekapura, Siva answered the prayer. A telephone rang in the New Delhi residence of Jawaharlal Nehru, and over it a jubilant voice crowed to India's Prime Minister: "Panditji, this is Home Minister Dixit. We have just killed...
Accepted Symbol. "On a less dramatic level," says Les Temps Modernes, "one liked the personality of Shane, that nostalgic outlaw of a Racine-like modesty, who troubled for a moment the wife of a farmer . . . The search for the everyday, true incident is hard to reconcile with the epic violence of the westerns, and here again there has been a radical change: the superman has been superseded by a 'new type' of cowboy, who hesitates, who suffers and who is afraid." Examples: The Ox-Bow Incident, Gun fighters, The Treasure of Sierra Madre...
Even the once blameless sex life of the cinema cowboy has been coming in for some sharp scrutiny from European critics. Critic Schein detects a sadistic dislike for women: "In The Outlaw, the young man, after prolonged abuse, humiliates the woman by choosing, in a tossup between her and a fine horse, the horse. In a priceless homosexual castration fantasy, the father figure of the film shoots off the ear lobes of the young man when he dares to defend himself. The pistol in westerns is by now accepted as a phallic symbol...
...since his gall bladder operations in 1953, but despite his silver-grey hair, tired eyes and furrowed forehead, he still wears a boyish air. Yet, when Dwight Eisenhower was an army major in the Philippines, Khrushchev an obscure bureaucrat, Nehru a revolutionary in jail and Mao Tse-tung an outlaw in the Shensi hills, the youthful Mr. Eden was parleying at the summit with Hitler, Mussolini and Stalin...