Word: psychopaths
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...advantage of student disaffection with the working-class, some New York City ex-ad-men fashioned Joe to play right into the fantasies of the more naive paranoids-and found themselves with the '70's first box-office smash. It is Peter Boyle's image of a gun-toting psychopath that has replaced Ralph Kramden as a symbol of the "lower depths" for the upper and middle classes. There hasn't been a decent manual laborer since, not even in Five Easy Pieces, which made the only repressed figure an ex-concert pianist. Even Brando's heroic dockworker from...