Word: loner
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...somewhat interesting proctormeeting. Lengthy because the proctor will go overa neverending list of administrative rules.Interesting because this is the first look atintricate-but-oh-so-fascinating dorm relations.Students can entertain themselves during theproctor's "be supportive of each other" speech bystudying the other dorm in habitants and pickingout The Loner, The Social butterfly, The Kid Who'sRumored To Have A Perfect SAT Score But No One'sReally Sure, The Shoulder to Cry On Kid and TheAnnoying as Hell...
From the quiet frontiersman to the modern urban loner, the archetypal American is someone whose most sacred territory is the portable enclosure of the self. But if "Mind your own business" has long been a prime tenet of the national philosophy, "Let it all hang out" is now running a close second. It's hard to find a national consensus on confidentiality in a nation of tell- all memoirs, inquiring pollsters and talk shows -- not to mention televised Senate hearings -- whose participants air explicit sexual details that would have caused earlier generations to blush and turn away...
...sell out if he wanted to. The film is violent, excessive and, above all, entertaining; it anticipates, satisfies and then trumps the moviegoer's expectations. It plunders film history (The Night of the Hunter, Psycho, even Spielberg's shooting stars) and creates, in De Niro's character, a loner driven to impossible extremes by the voices inside him. He is brother to Taxi Driver's Travis Bickle and Raging Bull's Jake La Motta, and evil twin to Jesus in Scorsese's The Last Temptation of Christ...
...summing up the various aspects of his life, Coles describes himself in clearer terms. "I am a loner and a wanderer, both within the University and in life," Coles says. "There is a wandering, loner quality to me. I'm not a member of a department, and I spend my time with students, rather than with faculty...
Brenda and Brandon had a hard time getting adjusted to West Beverly High, but they quickly made the friendships that will last as long as the show is on the air: Dylan is the loner; Steve, the jock; Kelly, the prom queen; Donna, the air head; David, the lovable geek; Andrea, the brilliant but sexually-repressed school newspaper editor. And, being from Beverly Hills, they are all beautiful people...