Word: freak
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...eerie that this social misfit, psychological cripple, social aberration and amoral freak comes up with the same conclusions I do. I also believe President Ford and big business are ruining the country...
Like the caretaker of a freak that has been thrust into the limelight, what the administration wants for its W.E.B. DuBois Institute for Afro-American Research is some quiet respect...
...pretty in a freckle-faced, redhaired, little-girl sort of way, she would turn few heads on the street. But the 27-year-old woman behind this innocent facade was anything but normal. In her way, Lynette Fromme was as much a social aberration−an amoral freak−as Lee Harvey Oswald, the killer of John F. Kennedy, or Sirhan Sirhan, who shot to death Robert F. Kennedy, or Arthur Bremer, who crippled Alabama Governor George Wallace. She had been−and still was−an ardent follower of Charles Manson, the psychopathic killer who is now serving...
...advertising executive, her female lover, who was afraid to be seen with her, "and at least for a time, a certain portion of my sanity." There were obscene phone calls, dirty words written on her car, slashed tires. People looked on her as "a freak, a tattooed lady." "I wonder, if we knew the cost," she says, "would we still have done...
Boston's two best pitchers, however, are extremely likeable and colorful guys, and generally fine throwers, Bill Lee, known as the Spaceman, is Boston's only freak. Recently he lost his temper after a bad day and called the Boston fans "racist," proclaiming that the only man in this town with any guts is Judge Garrity. This precipitated much inane commentary from the press on mixing athletics with social criticism, but on the whole the reporters like him because he's a good source: he may be Lost in Space from time to time but he's got more brains...