Word: misfits
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...addition to the bizarre melange of genres, the film is somewhat annoying in its Dan Quayle-esque Republican insistence upon family values. Though Haynes is a slime and a psychological misfit, Eastwood and Costner render him thoroughly endearing to the audience. The film also suggests that Haynes is somehow less accountable for his actions, and his anti-child-molesting streak becomes the prime justification for some of his crazy antics. The film never makes a definitive statement on the question of this moral responsibility, but chooses its points of drama for the lesser issues of the guilt, fear and confusion...
...thought I was the worst misfit," says Shayne M. Mauricette '96, who hails from Toronto. "I thought there must be something wrong with me that out of 1600 people, they picked me to live here...
fergie (fr ft.ge) chiefly British: a rambunctious misfit and renegade; a royal black sheep ((late 20th cent., origin obscure...
...York City, where one of them inherited a house from a brother who died of AIDS. But they experience the gift as a reproach for past neglect, and with one set of too near neighbors blaring opera while the other revs up show tunes, they feel like interlopers, a misfit minority. This gay-straight conflict, subtly mused on, lifts Terrence McNally's LIPS TOGETHER, TEETH APART beyond tragicomic tone poetry about the lonely vagaries of wedlock. Since the play opened last month off-Broadway, the foursome have been exquisitely played by Nathan Lane, Anthony Heald, Swoosie Kurtz and Christine Baranski...
Scott felt like a misfit at age 11, when his mother's remarriage took him from a lower-middle-class area to a wealthy suburb. Miserable, he began to drink and take drugs, buying $5 hits of the coolant Freon from a warehouse worker in the morning and then loading up on marijuana at his school during lunchtime. "It was like I was actually killing myself indirectly," says Scott, 18, who with treatment has been sober for three years...