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American

is the country that produces the most nostalgic, contentious and opinionated exiles.

is the modern version of "go west young man". While in nineteenth-century America conquering the world meant going west, in the twentieth century, it came to mean going to the city. The city had hope.

In nineteenth - century America conquering the world meant going west. In the twentieth century, when Hollywood got started, it came to mean going to the city. The city had hope: it may seem a curiosity now. Certainly it would to anyone going to the movies these past years. When My Sister Eileen was made twenty years ago, it was taken for granted that two pretty sisters could come to New York from Columbus, Ohio, and get into only minor trouble. Nobody expected them to be robbed, raped, polluted, or driven to hang out in singles bars. Horizon, May, 1977

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