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From these painful beginnings was forged a classic example of what author Colin Wilson called "the outsider," which Frady describes as a "prodigally gifted but displaced loner who undertakes to compensate for his alienation from the world around him by resorting to extraordinary, and often tragic, exertions to reinvent himself in heroic proportions." In Jackson's case that translated into a total identification with the inspiring struggle of the civil rights movement. Unfortunately for him, his quest has played out in the morally murky aftermath of Martin Luther King's assassination, which robbed the movement--and the nation...
Dashiell Hammett might be called the principal love of Hellman's busy love life. He is credited with inventing the hard-boiled detective with the dour, daring Continental Op of Red Harvest and Sam Spade of The Maltese Falcon. A clear, forceful prose stylist, Hammett was also a loner, a womanizer and a drunk. He had none of Hellman's worldly ambition, and he tailored his behavior to no one. Needless to say, she was crazy about...
...worlds where her beauty and quiet sexuality generate more rattle than hum. Yet Tyler also projects a work-in-progress quality, an appropriately teenage openness. Mangold says he knew as soon as he met Tyler that she would make an ideal Callie, the kindly waitress who intoxicates an overweight loner (Pruitt Taylor Vince) with whom she works in a grim, paneled pizzeria. "I needed someone to fill several bills," he explains. "She had to be devastatingly beautiful but she had to contradict our assumptions about someone who looks like that. I could really see Liv bonding with this...
...some of their recent fliers, the UNITE! Harvard conference, a forum on building a unified progressive and radical activist group, has sported the classic witness identification picture of the supposed madman with the hooded sweatshirt and the cool aviator glasses. Why is the country's most famous loner glorified by an organization whose purpose is to unite disparate groups--including BSA, RUS, BGLSA, AAA and La Raza--for social action...
McVeigh: I know it's human nature to not ignore what you've heard in the press, but I would ask them to be objective and open-minded. I have been misunderstood through labeling. Speed freak. Gun freak. Loner. My defense attorneys have said that people they have interviewed give a completely different picture...