Word: loner
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...know what it means to be a loner," Narayanamurti says. "I just don't think of myself in those terms...
...suspects as fitting the now familiar stereotype of alienated teens. "They were known as the stoner types," says Melissa Oliver, 17, a white senior at the school. "They would wear clown makeup all over their eyes, dog collars and big old dirty pants. They were all white; they were loner types...
...understandable. In his 1991 best seller, Den of Thieves, the author had the advantage of writing about financiers Michael Milken and Ivan Boesky, two super-rich felons rarely out of the limelight. Swango resists efforts to come alive on the page. He is a shadowy figure, an evasive loner with bizarre obsessions and an abundance of low animal cunning...
...society would be fairly easy. But the culture itself has retarded such progress by creating and embellishing an absurd though appealing connection among guns, personal power, freedom and beauty. The old western novels established a cowboy corollary to the Declaration of Independence by depicting the cowboy as a moral loner who preserves the peace and his own honor by shooting faster and surer than the competition. The old gangster movies gave us opposite versions of the same character. Little Caesar is simply an illegal Lone Ranger, with the added element of success in the free market. In more recent movies...
...That is, until Russell Bell enters the picture. Billy Bob Thornton (Sling Blade, A Simple Plan) plays a hard-core, motorcycle riding, nonchalant controller who's reputation precedes him. A loner from day one, Russell keeps to himself and to his job. Rumor is that he's been around, having worked in Phoenix and Denver among other places, and comes with the highest recommendations. To him, it's all just a video game. He could care less about the people in the planes; he just lines up the moving blips on his controller screen, and lands them. His lack...