Word: outcaste
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...high school with only one cheerleader and a social outcast who writes rock songs in his spare time, ruled by the student who represents America in the model U.N. No, it’s not a Wes Anderson film, it’s the video for “Sixteen Military Wives” by The Decemberists...
...Harvard’s athletic spirit (or lack thereof): I’m thankful that not liking to watch college sports does not make me an outcast, and that only going into the stadium for the last 10 minutes of the Harvard-Yale game was perfectly acceptable. If I had stayed at UCLA, I’d probably already be standing in line to get seats for the USC game this Saturday, and I’d probably have to learn enough about football to understand what was happening when I actually sat and watched the game instead of passing...
...tail, another a second mouth at the base of his neck, and others sprout tumescent growths on the face or webbing between their digits. They seem like corporeal manifestations of their inner souls. (If you were going to develop a strange growth, what would it look like?) Every sensitive outcast's nightmare comes true as those infected become as outwardly repulsive and rejectable as they feel inside. Some simply remove themselves entirely from society, preferring to live in the woods under garbage bag tents, eating pilfered junk food...
...Little. The title character (voiced by Zach Braff) has huge glasses and a studious mien. And, oh, is this chick adorable, whether trying to win a chaotic baseball game or shaking a tail feather in his soon-to-be-copied chicken dance. It's up to him and his outcast pals to persuade the local skeptics that, darn it, the sky really is falling. At a pace as sprightly and assured as the great old Warner Bros. cartoons, the movie flirts with alien abductions, crop circles, Streisand jokes and familial reconciliation. The animation is gorgeous, but it's the feeling...
Cool kids are wearing T shirts from last year's sleeper hit Napoleon Dynamite, starring JON HEDER as a teen outcast. The hip apparel has yet to catch on with real-life outcasts...