Word: nonconformist
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...behavior problem," Gaines told Maria Reidelbach, author of Completely Mad, "a nonconformist, a difficult child." What a surprise. Yet Gaines was born and raised (in New York City, of course) to be precisely who he became. His father had been a comic-book publisher in the '30s, and when young Bill took over the company after the war, he turned to lurid fun, producing a line of successful gore-and-monster comics that 1) subsidized less profitable publications in his stable, 2) inspired and influenced future horrauteurs from Stephen King to Wes Craven and George Romero, and 3) were...
...societal changes that are well under way. But many of the trends the programs reflect get started in L.A. "There is a distinctly 'Hollywoodian' perspective layered on top of the 'Californian' one on television," says David Stewart, a market-research psychologist at U.S.C. "It's novelty seeking, eccentric and nonconformist, as artists tend to be. It wants to reject traditional values. But that's one of the reasons the | Hollywood people are here, after all. This was a place where they were welcomed, or at least tolerated...
True to its nonconformist heritage, the town board is studying a novel solution: setting aside an acre of land and selling "plots" for $10 a square inch. If the plan is given the go-ahead, which may come as early as August, prospective buyers -- many of them probably nostalgic hippies -- will receive deeds and elaborate ownership certificates. And if all 6,272,640 square-inch parcels contained in the acre are sold, the town stands to reap a huge windfall...
That sign was recently displayed at a Students United for Desert Storm (SUDS) rally on the same grass where once walked Ralph Waldo Emerson, author of the immortal words "Whosoever would be a man must be a nonconformist...
...letters plus a hyphen, Sammataro-Hutchins is a bit much. Still, time has not been kind either to the Floyd-Bells, Church-Smiths and other conscientiously nonsexist, nonconformist couples who embraced hyphenation in the '70s as a banner of equality. The ubiquitous computer, for example, often seems incapable of recognizing hyphens. Says a Citibank spokesman: "This is not an insidious attack on our part. It's a program problem." Bureaucracies would rather set aside the mark altogether. In Bayside, N.Y., Dana Wissner- Levy, a graduate student at Hofstra University, had to take her battle to the school president before...