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...enough to make a parent's head spin. The American Psychiatric Association differentiates between pedophiles who are sexually attracted to prepubescent children and child molesters who abuse children for reasons that may not even be sexually motivated. While child molesters are largely male and fit a certain stereotype-social misfit, living alone, unemployed, unable to form adult relationships-pedophiles could be anyone. They stalk playgrounds and schools, identify vulnerable children and spend much time "grooming" the victim. They may be the rich uncle who showers kids with gifts while hugging them too tight and for too long. Or the boyfriend...
...American mythology and the making of American history. No one can quite agree on what to make of him. "Unblushingly Machiavellian," wrote his biographer, Philip Barbour. In the best of light, Smith was the impolitic outlaw with more grit than tact, the archetypical don't-tread-on-me misfit without whom the fragile experiment at Jamestown would have collapsed within months. What historians can agree on is that he was a victim of his time: the pivotal English figure in the first sustained Anglo-American culture clash, the accidental envoy who would cross the Atlantic but never bridge the broader...
Playing a misfit pianist in Shine may have won him an Oscar, but look at the prize Rush won for playing a villain...
...into two rooms is excellent, helping to foster thought on the very same ideas as the art itself. In walking from room to room you must pass by three paintings, whose conventional form appears to stand in stark contrast to the multiples. Yet mysteriously the jars of honey or misfit toys featured in the “Multiple Strategies” exhibit seem no less “artistic” than the more traditionally acceptable oil paintings. The exhibit shows both the artists’ multiple strategies in creating art and their multiple interpretations of art?...
...former emergency-room doctor has claimed the mythological writings of Joseph Campbell as his cinematic touchstone. "The composite hero of the monomyth is a personage of exceptional gifts," wrote Campbell in The Hero with a Thousand Faces. "Frequently he is honored by his society, frequently unrecognized or disdained." From misfit Max, to a piglet who thinks he's a sheep, and a penguin who can't express himself through song, only dance, the stories remain essentially the same. "There's no difference between Happy Feet, Babe and Mad Max," Miller insists...