Word: loner
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...them to stay put as they tried to restore order and determine whether Weston was acting alone. The building was sealed, and officers began a room-to-room search, blocking stairways and elevators. When they had determined that this was not a coup, not a conspiracy, but rather another loner with a gun, they finally let people leave, filing back out into the sunshine, past the ambulances and fire trucks and microphones, while the FBI, Secret Service, ATF and D.C. police arrived to join in the search for evidence and answers...
...classical" mode, which he would revert to for decades to come, can also be seen as a gesture of independence. After his collaboration with Braque ended with his comment that "Braque is my wife"--words that were as disparaging to women as to Braque--Picasso remained a loner for the rest of his career. But a loner with a court and maitresses en titre. He didn't even form a friendship with Matisse until both artists were old. His close relationships tended to be with poets and writers...
...flattening intrusive photographers? How could the exuberance of Come Fly with Me, the joyful, rapturous carnality of I've Got You Under My Skin (the '56 version, with the brassy transcendence of Nelson Riddle's arrangement), the sinuous Summer Wind match up with the temperament of a tempestuous loner who traveled with a squadron of pals and protectors, who swung on and spat on the ladies and gents of the press and who declined to forswear certain companions--Vegas oddsmakers and knee breakers, sharply tailored gentlemen in New York and Chicago like Sam Giancana, with no discernible day jobs...
...victims who represented the advance of technology, he was sending a second message: Technology was destroying both itself and nature. Intrigued, the FBI asked for more, and a year before the arrest of Theodore Kaczynski, Jones predicted the Unabomber would turn out to be an intellectual, a conservationist, a loner, possibly a college teacher, familiar with the work of Joseph Conrad, and would see himself as if in "a war to save the world." But Jones couldn't give the FBI a name, and all he got after the arrest was a polite note. Now a teacher at Utah Valley...
...never held a steady job or opened a bank account, and he has dabbled at the fringes of right-wing extremism. He's invariably described as handsome and polite by those who know him; he appears to enjoy swords-and-sorcery films; and (inevitably), he's "a loner...