Word: friendless
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...made a career out of playing shy, lonesome characters who break out of their shell in a crisis. In "The Net," as opposed to "Speed" and "While You Were Sleeping," at least she has a job, as a computer-systems analyst. But she still doesn't have a life. Friendless and working at home, she comes into possession of a program that its creators say is an anti-computer virus program but is itself an electronic Ebola. Needless to say, Angela must be deleted before she can delete it. "There are some logical jump cuts in 'The Net's' narrative...
Koernke's former neighbor in Gallagher Lake Estates (about 15 miles north of the dilapidated farmhouse Koernke, his wife and four children occupy today outside the town of Dexter) recalls him as friendless. On the 20-minute walk home from the school-bus stop younger children would taunt the gangly, bespectacled high school student and slap his books from his hands. His former classmates and teachers at Dexter High School remember him as having one or two friends but also, as one puts it, "some exotic ideas." Several remember he wore fatigues to school, a peculiar fashion choice at that...
...this takes place in 200 short pages. The book whisks through Bennett's life, briefly introducing his family and acquaintances and leaves him off in his mid-thirties, friendless and rather boring. By that point it is difficult for the reader to care much about Bennett since, in the final part of the novel, he suggests that a colleague manufacture data, refuses to offer help to his destitute uncle, and gives up on the woman he married...
...President must be aware that Chechnya has been a political catastrophe for him. The question is what lessons he will draw from the experience. Will he conclude that restive provinces across Russia can be held in check only with an iron fist? He could be feeling so isolated and friendless that he will throw in with hard-line loyalists in the Defense Ministry and the intelligence services...
...Mussberger (Paul Newman) moves to elect a complete imbecile president so Wall Street will panic, and the stock will plunge. Barnes proves himself more than worthy, but when his idiocy becomes golden, Mussberger and the board are forced to plot his fall from power by manipulating the brilliant but friendless journalist spy Archer...