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Word: characterizes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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The secret of Reynolds' and Eastwood's success is that they also have found ways to fulfill the often unexpressed longings of this group, to make that essentially 19th century figure, the resourceful Western loner, into a 20th century character. For what, after all, are Eastwood's many cops but...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Good Ole Burt; Cool-Eyed Clint | 1/9/1978 | See Source »

From here on out, our heroes' road should be straight, trending gently upward as it passes through the lovely countryside of wealth, fame and success?right? Well, not exactly. Hollywood had trouble believing Eastwood's pasta hits weren't flukes. And when he started to get work back home, he...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Good Ole Burt; Cool-Eyed Clint | 1/9/1978 | See Source »

His response to this situation was about what you would expect of a man whose screen character personifies rugged individualism in our time. He simply went out and formed his own company, which has taken over sole control of Eastwood's work; he rents himself out to no man or...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Good Ole Burt; Cool-Eyed Clint | 1/9/1978 | See Source »

His price per picture for films in which he only acts has just doubled?to $2 million?but he is already rich from percentage deals on older films. The once famous womanizer has been settled down with Sally Field for over a year, and having finally braved the Bel-Air...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Good Ole Burt; Cool-Eyed Clint | 1/9/1978 | See Source »

For years he toiled in small parts until foreign films gave him the boost he needed. Rider on the Rain, Once upon a Time in the West grossed hugely in Europe, and Bronson got the chance to be himself, a hard man of few words and strong feelings-lé...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Then Came Bronson... | 1/9/1978 | See Source »

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