Word: strangers
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High Plains Drifter is the one about the corrupt town that hires a stranger who is fast with his gun and slow with his lip to protect itself from the consequences of its own venality and hypocrisy. In this instance it is a gang of murderous psychopaths who once did the dirty work of the town's leading citizens, were doublecrossed by them and now intend to vengefully sack the place...
...supporting players−a cowardly sheriff, the good woman, the bad woman, an exceedingly pious preacher, the cowardly and manipulative town fathers and even a friendly midget (Billy Curtis)−are stylized rather than characterized. As befits a star's role, The Stranger (he is carefully given no proper name) is a little more complicated...
...ahead by being aggressive. People who look for the police to solve this problem are looking in the wrong direction." Meanwhile, Dr. Tanay warns that the chances of getting murdered in a gun-laden society are so great that it is unwise ever to argue with a stranger during, say, a traffic mishap...
...habit of obliterating the offending language with black paint. Retaliation in kind follows. A few years ago, while driving to a Brussels suburb, I came to a point where five roads met. There were five direction signs in both languages, all blacked out, leaving me or any other stranger to guess which one to take. Luckily, I spoke both French and Flemish and was able to ask a native. When I asked him for la bonne route in French, he refused to answer as a matter of principle, but when I asked for de weg, he obliged, somewhat startled...
Portions of the tone of the article--a quote such as "the stranger who threatened to stab me 'some night in Harvard yard' as I was leaving the lecture hall, I took to be acting impulsively and not reflecting official SDS or UAG or PLP policy"--may lead one to believe that Herrnstein may have enjoyed parts of his battle, an idea that he denied last night...