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...epics put their audience through this needless lifeboat drill, establishing characters whose main function is to be devoured or drowned. This applies here even to Billy, a tough loner with a sweet spot. Billy could be his own Bogart festival. At first he is the grizzled boat captain in To Have and Have Not; then he's greedy Fred C. Dobbs in The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, risking his mates' lives to make the big score; finally, he nears the daft steeliness of The Caine Mutiny's Captain Queeg. Clooney bends his genial machismo to these darker shadings...
...institutional affiliation," Coles says. "I was a loner, a maverick...
Aside from both being academics, Dolores and Jefferson Fish are opposites--and that's what they love about each other. Dolores is African American; Jeff is white. She's a loner; he's a mixer. She's nurturing; he's competitive. She's rational; he's emotional. As a cultural anthropologist she studies objects; as a psychologist he studies people. "We have zero overlap," says Jeff proudly. "Even after 30 years together, I am perpetually fascinated by Dolores." The feeling is mutual. "Jeff and I have many more interesting worlds to share with each other because we have those differences...
...JEAN: He has that deadpan sense of humor. I bet he hangs out with pretty snazzy people like him. He looks pretty snazzy. I don't think necessarily his roommate is like him, but he seems a little like a loner. A little difficult to get under the surface...
...Columbine tapes gave me chills, but not for the politically correct reasons [SPECIAL REPORT, Dec. 20]. You see, that was me at 17. I was like those kids on the tapes. I hated everybody at school; I was an outcast loner who mostly stayed home and listened to gangsta rap. I wanted to kill the school leaders, the "members," everybody who had screwed me. My plans for mass murder never got beyond the fantasy stage, but under the right circumstances, they could have gone as far as Columbine. How can we stop kids who will kill? Many need mental-health...