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Article: Paul newman: morality and mid-century man.(REEL LIFE)
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- Clinical Psychiatry News
- Article date:
- November 1, 2008
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Perhaps more than any other actor of his time, Paul Newman embodied a masculine style that was idealized in mid-20th century America, a style born of U.S. successes in World War II following the defeats of the Great Depression. It was a style portrayed repeatedly in films of the 1940s and 1950s.
Newman was handsome, lean, and strong; he was self confident, sometimes cocky, defiant, full of swagger--a lone figure acting in and on the world without deep ties to family or others. He was short on words, extraverted and not given to introspection; action oriented, tough, a rascal, though often enough a decent rascal. Men like Newman's characters were refiexively ...
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Transcript: Paul Newman: A Sportsman And A Hero
NPR Morning Edition;
October 1, 2008 ;
642 words
... ... MONTAGNE, host: On screen Paul Newman played sports characters ... ever thought that of Paul Newman. In a way, men and ... Eddie Felson in "The Hustler" and then in "The Color of Money." If Paul Newman was connected, it must ...
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