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...refusing to accept the tiny share of the ganga profits which the authorities have delegated to the runners, that the calm confidence, the disguised naivite which Ivan has imported with him from the country to Kingston breaks down. When he refuses to submit to capture, killing a pursuing motorcycle cop, he finds his role as the renegade. Having been through the religion and music rackets, Ivan finally rests content with the rule of the gun. It marks his outright acceptance of the violence which lives behind the rackets...
...away that he's going to play any response you make by his rules." I watch its progression in the fact that I have stopped going back to first causes when I put on eyeliner in the morning, or in the way that I have stopped reading cop-outs into the way I dress...
...holding forth to rapt pals in an Irish pub." Severance's polar positions are rebellion and awe. "Both seemed built in, he was ready to defend both to the death. You had to have both. He saw damned little of either in most Americans at the moment: just cop-out or sheephood, not independence or emulation. Hyperdemocracy, the sovereignty of the unqualified individual, added into a mass...
...blue language by Writer Monash, and played by Mitchum as a man trying to walk-not run-to the nearest exit, he is an infinitely more appealing figure. Coyle is still hard enough to intimidate a reckless apprentice punk, canny enough to fight a good delaying action against the cop who keeps pressing for more and more information and strangely trusting of an old friend who is a much more clever ex-stoolie (and who finally undoes him). In all, Coyle emerges as a complex and multifaceted character. Self-consciously, with an old pro's quiet skills, Mitchum explores...
...resembled a cigar-store Indian silhouette. Now, behind his back, subordinates call him Dick Tracy because of his fondness for technological gadgetry (such as Kansas City's computerized information system and helicopter patrol, which he instituted) and his square-jawed resemblance to the comic-strip cop...