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Or perhaps the New York art world, in which Kusama ran aground, required such a tough-guy mentality to survive.
Henry Kissinger is quoted in the LAT epitaph saying of Ehrlichman that "he was a victim of the Vietnam War and a tough-guy atmosphere in the Nixon White House."
In Frederic Wakeman's 1946 novel, The Hucksters , the hero, played by Clark Gable in the film version, is a tough-guy creative whiz who gives up on advertising as soon as he realizes that he's genuinely afraid of losing the big soap account.