Word: loners
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...wisely zeroes in on a few cadets. "Whitey" Herzog is a studly, overachieving sergeant. "Huck" Finn (everybody at West Point has a nickname) is a malcontent who signed on just to play football. The book's most affecting character is George Rash, the antithesis of huah, a tuba-playing loner in the world capital of male bonding. Take a good look: this is the face America turns to most of the world, and until now it's one that most of us have never seen. --By Lev Grossman
Though the premise is sensational, Chase treats Kaczynski’s psyche and the college’s social and educational environment with great consideration. Kaczynski was not the marginalized loner or the intellectual lunatic as portrayed by the popular media during his 1998 trial, but rather a sensitive, multi-talented man with a highly gifted mind...
...Lethal Weapon series, in Ransom and in Signs, Gibson was the loner battling impossible odds. He seems to feel that way about The Passion, which should be ready for Easter 2004. A conservative in reflexively liberal Hollywood, and a devout Catholic in an industry whose products often mock religion, Gibson senses opposition to his film. The star, who had kept the set closed to the press before allowing TIME to visit this month, was angry that friends and relatives, including his 85-year-old father, had been pestered by an unidentified reporter preparing a story on The Passion. He suspects...
...campus explodes into paranoia, pushing Trevor to the brink of real violence. Bang Bang is too speech-heavy, and for a movie about the danger of stereotypes, it's rife with them: meathead jocks, insensitive parents, earnest teachers. But Foster makes Trevor searingly real, a bright, eyes-averted loner who so badly wants you to think he doesn't care that you know he does. This is a flawed but unignorable trip into the terrified heart of zero-tolerance America. --By James Poniewozik
...scene and stationing his car on a bridge at the city line. When the kidnappers arrived, they started shooting. Duterte and his security detail returned fire, killing three of the four suspects. It was like a scene from the Philippine movies, which are replete with Dirty Harry loner-heroes. Here, it seemed, was a man who did what he promised, a man willing to die?and kill?for Davao. Has he, in fact, killed people? Duterte says he doesn't know, noting blithely "I didn't use tracer bullets." At 57, he remains the swaggering new-sheriff-in-town...