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...Instead, he spends his time smoking huge amounts of marijuana and churning out thousands of pages of his own novel, also called Wonder Boys, which he knows he will never finish. James Leer, one of Grady's students, is twenty years younger but no less screwed up. An awkward loner and closeted homosexual, James has an obsession with Hollywood suicides that nearly leads him to blow his brains...
Though Leeson was center of attraction on the trading floor, he was, for the most part, a loner. Last week some of his associates expressed surprise that he was married. Said one: "His behavior was more like that of a bachelor." Almost no one had heard of Lisa Leeson in the expatriate community; she was not a member of any of the social clubs. The live-in maid next door says Lisa rarely left the house. When she did, she wore jeans and T shirts or athletic sweats--and according to the apartment building's security guard, "her face looked...
Nilhan's former classmates at Belmont High School yesterday described him as a troublemaker and a loner...
...convinced he is being exploited; his very smart, very pretty girlfriend (Tyra Banks), who is coolly intent on using the system to her advantage; a young white woman (Kristy Swanson), victimized by date rape, tempted by lesbianism, ultimately redeemed and betrayed by her idealistic political activism; a socially maladroit loner (Michael Rapaport), who finds a dank spiritual home with the local neo- Nazis. The rapper Ice Cube is on hand as a perpetual graduate student and guru to the black activists. Laurence Fishburne represents adult authority as an arrogant, challenging and ultimately wise and sympathetic political-science professor...
...process, authorities say, is so time consuming that the bomber must be a loner. He may also be, warns San Francisco FBI special agent Jim Freeman, who is heading up the Unabom task force, "a quiet person, a typical 'nice-guy' neighbor...