Word: freak
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...McCartney spokesman, who added that McCartney proposed on one knee with a diamond-and-sapphire ring bought in India. McCartney and Mills endured a few rough years before meeting. He admitted he contemplated suicide following wife Linda's death from breast cancer in 1998; Mills was in a freak motorcycle accident that took her leg in 1993. Together they have overcome an age difference almost vast enough to impress Robert Evans...
When he lost his vision, Erik at first refused to use a cane or learn Braille, insisting he could somehow muddle on as normal. "I was so afraid I would seem like a freak," he recalls. But after a few embarrassing stumbles--he couldn't even find the school rest rooms anymore--he admitted he needed help. For Erik, the key was acceptance--not to fight his disability but to learn to work within it; not to transcend it but to understand fully what he was capable of achieving within it; not to pretend he had sight but to build...
...from Bono's Third World debt-relief tour, which he described as "a surreal crossover act, a rock star, a Kennedy and a noted economist crisscrossing the globe like the Partridge Family on psychotropic drugs." By the time Bono called incoming Harvard President Lawrence Summers a "nutcase and a freak"--he meant it as a compliment--many students were chanting and exhibiting signs of deep Elvis, proving you can bring cool to Harvard, but nothing can make Harvard cool...
...With his Germanic, sculpted features and light brown hair, Erik looks a bit like a shaggy, youthful Kirk Douglas. He is a celebrity now: strangers ask for his autograph, reporters call constantly, restaurants give him free meals. But is his celebrity the circus-freak variety?of a type with the Dogboy and the two-headed snake...
...When he lost his vision, Erik at first refused to use a cane or learn Braille, insisting he could somehow muddle on as normal. "I was so afraid I would seem like a freak," he recalls. But after a few embarrassing stumbles?he couldn't even find the school rest rooms anymore?he admitted he needed help. For Erik, the key was acceptance?not to fight his disability but to learn to work within it; not to transcend it but to understand fully what he was capable of achieving within it; not to pretend he had sight but to build...