Word: misfitting
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...ethic to it, but it was no longer loud and fast. Which we were just bad at.” The band grew in the bar by North Station where anyone could play; in the underground network that was, at the time, “just a bunch of misfit and losers, really,” admits Krukowski. “This was before the whole alternative rock idea. No one was paying attention to us…It worked out, we could get cheap rehearsal space.” Years later, Krukowski and his wife Naomi Yang...
...oddball whose icy composition, tilted orbit and tiny size made it unlike anything else in the solar system. But when the New Horizons probe finally takes off from Cape Canaveral?as early as next week, if all goes well?it will be heading for something else entirely. "This little misfit is now central to our understanding of the origin of our solar system," says Alan Stern of the Southwest Research Institute in Boulder, Colo., and lead scientist for New Horizons...
Still, it would be misleading to caricature Fitzgerald as a humorless social misfit. It's true that he lacks certain domestic skills; for years, he famously piled reams of papers on the nonworking stove in his New York apartment. But he was also the one called on to roast departing colleagues and could always be counted on to join raucous beer drinking after a game of rugby or baseball...
Inspired by the finest 1950s junk fiction--Mickey Spillane's gun-crazy P.I. Mike Hammer and Al Feldstein's EC SuspenStories comics--Miller tells tales of misfit heroes seeking redemption by rescuing damsels in distress. Hartigan (Bruce Willis, untoppable at slipping into the skin of doomed tough guys) is a cop on a mission to save sweet Nancy (Jessica Alba) from a serial killer. Marv (Mickey Rourke, whose fallen-angel smile peeks through pounds of makeup) is an ex-con avenging the death of the one beautiful woman who ever did him a favor. Dwight (sturdy, haunted Clive Owen...
...Still, pressure on Kim's regime is rising. North Korea's refusal to continue nuclear-disarmament talks with neighboring countries and the U.S. makes the North an increasingly worrisome misfit in the international arena, and there are signs that Kim is facing unprecedented challenges at home. He recently purged his brother-in-law, Jang Song Taek, for trying to set up his own power base in the military, according to South Korean intelligence testimony to Seoul lawmakers last week. Jang may have been an obstacle to Kim's plans to some day hand power over to one of his three...