Word: loner
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...dance fans as the miracle of the artist in flight. Offstage he broods aloud about the "moral preparation" and asceticism that he insists are as important to the dancer as physical training -while avidly sipping a Scotch and soda and smoking cigarettes. He thinks of himself as a loner, "a wolf lost from the pack," but he is perhaps another kind of wolf as well. He has conducted affairs with several women-among them, dancers he has worked with-since arriving in the West last summer. He ended one of them with what friends regard as chilly abruptness...
Parent understands the concern; he once played in similar amateur programs in his native Montreal. His introduction to hockey came with a tennis ball as a puck and galoshes for skates. The pick-up games were played on neighborhood streets and young Bernie, always a loner, wanted to play goalie from the start. "I stopped the first shot and that settled it," he recalls. "The challenge to make a save was always there. It was just in me." The son of a factory foreman, Parent did not start skating until he was 11, and then his debut in the goal...
...police are searching for a 6-ft., 190-lb. man with stringy blond hair. Deputy Chief George N. Beck says that a psychiatric profile describes the killer as "a jackal ... a loner, some guy who probably lives like a hermit and only creeps out of his hole to commit these horrible crimes." The police also say that he could be a homosexual. The killer preys on defenseless men of small stature in their 40s or 50s, knocks them unconscious with blows to the head and slits their throats with a large sharp hunting knife. Then, before fleeing, he usually removes...
...accounts, British M.P. and Financier John Stonehouse was a mysterious man. "He was a complete loner," says one parliamentary colleague. "I don't think he had a single close friend in the House." Even his wife recently observed sarcastically that "I was apparently married all those years to a man whose life was stranger than fiction." So, perhaps, was his death. On the afternoon of Nov. 21, Stonehouse, 49, seemingly in good spirits, set off on a jog down the beach at Miami's Fontainebleau Hotel, in full view of the lifeguards. Nobody saw him enter the water...
...soon. Clouds of doubt and dismay are forming over Capitol Hill, and not only among Democrats. "What happened to Jerry on the way down the avenue?" asks one disgruntled G.O.P. House leader. Once one of the congressional colleagues most open to consultation, Ford is now perceived as a loner who does not defer to Congress any more than did his isolated predecessor in the White House. "I don't know what's going on down there," says a top House Republican. "I don't know who's advising...