Word: loner
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...city, making new friends, and trying new things. I’m from California, so when I made the decision to go to Harvard, I was excited about my new adventure.” “Meeting new friends because otherwise I’ll be a loner for four years.” “Forgetting even more names.” “Five week winter break.” “Destroying...
...they put an initiative on the ballot in Souter's hometown to seize his home and replace it with an inn to be called the Lost Liberty Hotel. It was voted down, so the old farmhouse will still be there waiting for him when Souter leaves Washington - still a loner, still a mystery in some ways, but a man we know much more about now than we did when he first arrived...
...What if we did a workplace comedy, and the focus of our attention and sympathy were on a fellow - played by Rogen, everyone's favorite jovial slob - who is this close to the simmering psycho Robert De Niro played in Taxi Driver? The gun love, the quiet surliness, the loner status, the head whisperings, the mistaken fashioning of other people's motives into paranoid scenarios - all echo the violent cabbie in Martin Scorsese's movie, whose script was inspired by the diary of Arthur Bremer, the would-be assassin of Governor George Wallace...
...Kindly Ones is a grandly hallucinatory account of World War II from the point of view of an SS officer named Max Aue. Max is an intellectual and a loner with refined taste in music and literature. As a narrator he reminds one of a chillier, less funny Humbert Humbert. But Max's business isn't raping nymphets. It's racketing around the Third Reich, from Stalingrad to Auschwitz to Hitler's bunker, advancing the cause of Nazi genocide...
Blagojevich also identified with Nixon's own self-image as a political outsider. Indeed, the young Blagojevich was something of a loner in college, keeping to himself as he traveled daily from his home in Chicago to the Northwestern campus in nearby Evanston. The future governor, says his old friend, was always "aware that he was a bit different from most of the kids on campus, and sort of proud of it. There was without questions an 'I'll show them' edge to him." Several acquaintances and people who graduated the same year as he did were even surprised...