Word: outcaste
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Then one day you see an ad on TV announcing that "the wet look is back" and something inside you snaps. You realize that things have changed forever. You're an outcast. No one cares that the Yeti's habitat is being encroached upon. No one cares that the social organization of the Burmese orchid monkey exactly duplicates that of professional football referees. Curiosity is dead...
During the past 20 years the soft-spoken physicist has undergone a remarkable transformation in the eyes of his countrymen. Once he was a highly decorated scientist who in the 1950s helped develop the first Soviet hydrogen bomb; by the early 1970s he had become an outcast among his own people as a result of his relentless campaign for human rights and disarmament. In 1975 he was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize but was not allowed to go to Oslo to receive it. In January 1980 he was arrested by the KGB after criticizing the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan...
...bottom of Beth Henley's script drawer. The author of Crimes of the Heart and (in collaboration) True Stories has down-home flakes down pat, but here they are too pat. Meet -- as if you hadn't met them in Southern literature a hundred times before -- the irrepressible outcast (Rosanna Arquette), the sensitive wanderer (Eric Roberts) in search of Miz Right, the good-ole-girl barmaid (Mare Winningham), the ex-jock with itchy trousers (Jim Youngs). In her eye blink of a role, Winningham is a buoyant delight, and Youngs nicely fleshes out his cardboard stud, but everyone else goes...
...legendary Russian poet Osip Mandelstam. He died in one of Stalin's prison camps in the late '30s and was resurrected in Hope Against Hope and Hope Abandoned, the magnificent two-volume memoir by his wife Nadezhda. She died in 1980, and Brodsky recalls her life of outcast poverty and how she hid her husband's manuscripts in saucepans. In the end, her kitchen became a cultural pit stop for touring writers and scholars. She tired of the attention, Brodsky says, and looked forward to death, because "up there I'll again be with Osip." The poet Anna Akhmatova disagreed...
...equivocal on the issue. "I'm glad I'm not faced with that problem today," said the President, whose four children are grown, in response to a press conference question. He expressed sympathy for the predicament of a child who cannot comprehend "why somehow he is now an outcast." Yet the President also said he "can well understand the plight of the parents and how they feel" about possible dangers. New York Governor Mario Cuomo told the New York Post that he "would be scared to death" to send his 15-year-old son Christopher to a class with...