His reclusiveness, and his Randian ideas, lent his work a patina of mystery.
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Prior to the release of Endless, Frank Ocean's reclusiveness had become a running joke.
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VICE: The reclusiveness of Stanley Kubrick is something that was constantly discussed throughout his career.
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His reclusiveness makes him fascinating, though, which is why Bachelor Nation seems so anxious to get his attention.
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In the years after he left television, Mr. Chappelle's reclusiveness became almost mythological, his few public appearances receiving tabloid attention.
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But Barnes is dogged by past trauma and past sins, and his reclusiveness comes out of a need to punish himself.
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But her reclusiveness has courted a fandom that is, for the most part, respectful and appreciative of the space she demands for herself.
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Thereafter, she returns home and pretty much stays there, enjoying friendships and family but retreating further into reclusiveness as the years go on.
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What sets Burial apart from these other artists though, and makes his reclusiveness more successful, is his lack of a single live performance.
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Mueller's reclusiveness and deference to authority are what make his letter to Barr questioning the attorney general's framing of the special counsel report so extraordinary.
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Al-Baghdadi's reclusiveness fed rumors of his demise, with many news outlets carrying speculative reports of his death, all of which proved to be untrue.
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Despite fully embracing reclusiveness, it's time to take a leap toward returning to the lovable clown I felt like for all those years in bars.
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Mr. al-Baghdadi's reclusiveness fed rumors of his demise, with many news media outlets carrying speculative reports of his death, all of which proved to be untrue.
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Though their romantic relationship came to an end in 215.9, when Saint Laurent retreated into drugs, alcohol and reclusiveness, the professional partnership between the two men continued.
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Later in Varble's life — a period of reclusiveness during which he dedicated himself to a never-completed, epic video work — technology helped him elude the art industry.
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The flamboyant approach has turned the family dictatorship's decades of dour reclusiveness on their head and done much for the North Korean leader's standing at home and abroad.
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Though their romantic relationship came to an end in 1976, when Saint Laurent retreated into drugs, alcohol and reclusiveness, the professional partnership between the two men continued for years afterwards.
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But it unexpectedly became the latest jaw-dropping installment of his audacious — critics say dangerously naïve — public diplomacy with a North Korean strongman once known for his extreme paranoia and reclusiveness.
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When Matt (AJ Bowen) and his wife, Karen (Susan Burke), visit his long-estranged brother Steve (Scott Poythress) for the holidays, they are unnerved by his reclusiveness and boarded-up windows.
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Some analysts attributed Mr. Karimov's reclusiveness and violent tendencies toward opponents as well as relatives and associates — he was known to pitch heavy marble ashtrays at senior aides — to his early years in a Soviet orphanage.
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Having the sun on your personal horizon gives you a bold boost of energy after a period of rest and reclusiveness—you've finally turned your phone back on and need to respond to all your missed messages!
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Despite his reclusiveness, he made news a decade ago when he opposed the development of coal and gas fields on his Montana ranch by companies that held drilling leases because it would imperil the property's water supply.
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What propelled them together, however, was not the need for a drink, but Trump's threat to visit military havoc on Kim, shake his confidence and winkle him out of his reclusiveness for a face-to-face meeting.
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Since he started making music as Cashmere Cat six years ago, he's developed a reputation for reclusiveness, shirking most interview requests and obscuring his face in most photographs—even as his productions have exuded a cartoonish, childlike warmth.
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While I recognize the signs of depression in myself (reclusiveness, feelings of worthlessness, excessive sleeping, loss of appetite, etc.), I also realize none of these symptoms are persistent, and I'm generally a happy person—so a lot of things feel confusing right now, to say the least.
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Henry David Thoreau's call in 1854 to "simplify, simplify" was a kind of recluse's mantra, as well as an act of protest against the modern world that would serve as a future model for solitary artists, but as Kathryn Schulz argued in a Thoreau takedown in The New Yorker in 2015, reclusiveness can also breed narcissism and sententiousness.
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Reclusiveness can also appear to arrest people in time, rendering even the most brilliant high-mindedness eccentric and sad, the most famous example being the late J.D. Salinger, who was still railing against "the phonies" and writing to teenage girls from his New Hampshire farmhouse well into middle age, 20 or so years after he began his self-imposed exile in the 1950s.
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Lawyers for Mr. Simmons, who disappeared from the public stage in 2014 but was thrust back into the spotlight this year when a podcast exploring his reclusiveness became a runaway hit, said in a libel lawsuit that The National Enquirer and Radar Online had acted "with calculated malice" by publishing stories that stated he had transitioned from male to female.
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Nolzur's reclusiveness has caused his fame to fade in recent decades. Nolzur created Nolzur's marvelous pigments and Nolzur's orb.Gygax, Gary. World of Greyhawk Fantasy Game Setting.
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In the Judeo-Islamic philosophies (800–1400), the Jewish philosopher, Saadia Gaon, uses the Platonic idea that the self-isolated man is dehumanized by friendlessness to argue against the misanthropy of anchorite asceticism and reclusiveness.
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"Capri's famous visitors", Capri On Line. Archive copy (22 April 2019). In Capri he was known for his reclusiveness, short temper, and sharp tongue. He often went around in a French suit, causing him to be regarded as a bit eccentric.
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Lenox never married. An early love, the only woman to whom he was romantically attached, refused him and remained unmarried following his death. The broken romance spurred his increasing reclusiveness. He declined proffered visits from the most distinguished men of the day.
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Smil is known for being "intensely private", shunning the press while letting his books speak for themselves. At the University of Manitoba, he only ever showed up at one faculty meeting (since the 1980s). The school accepted his reclusiveness so long as he kept teaching and publishing highly rated books.
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Cornell was wary of strangers. This led him to isolate himself and become a self-taught artist. Although he expressed attraction to unattainable women like Lauren Bacall, his shyness made romantic relationships almost impossible. In later life his bashfulness verged toward reclusiveness, and he rarely left the state of New York.
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Because of his reclusiveness, signed copies of Coetzee's fiction are highly prized. Recognising this, he was a key figure in the establishment of Oak Tree Press's First Chapter Series, which produces limited-edition signed works by literary greats to raise money for the child victims and orphans of the African HIV/AIDS crisis.
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Roberge (2020), p. 322 Some of his friendships, like those with Norman Peterkin or Hinton, lasted until the death of either party; others were broken, such as the one with Holliday.Roberge (2020), p. 251 Sorabji appears to have been more approachable when he moved to Corfe Castle and his reclusiveness strengthened with age.
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Schwartz, 301. Each of his three brothers committed suicide, two after the loss of the family fortune in the 1929 stock market crash.Lubowsky, 7. Bright Light at Russell's Corners (1946) Although he had exhibited his works with some success, by the early 1930s his neurotic behavior and reclusiveness had alienated him from the gallery world.
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Georges Lentz is a contemporary composer and sound artist, born in Luxembourg in 1965, and is that country's internationally best-known composer."Lentz, Georges", in Luxemburger Lexikon, Editions Guy Binsfeld, Luxembourg, 2006. Since 1990, he has been living in Sydney, Australia. Despite his relatively small output and his reclusiveness, he is also considered one of Australia's leading composers.
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She lived as a recluse for 10 years, with little to no contact with her husband and friends. She rarely left the house and did not read. When George Brightwen died in 1883 she emerged from reclusiveness, to be active intellectually and physically, but continued to suffer from body pains for the rest of her life. She still rarely left The Grove.
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Mitchell's reclusiveness did not allow him to agree to having his portrait painted. The portrait prefixed to the centenary volume was painted from a photograph, after his death. He would never be interviewed and his kindliness was only known to a few students. He did not marry, but was glad to think that the library would be a permanent memorial of his family.
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One studied emotional effect is "Facebook depression", which is a type of depression that affects adolescents who spend too much of their free time engaging with social media sites. This may lead to problems such as reclusiveness which can negatively damage one's health by creating feelings of loneliness and low self-esteem among young people.O’Keefe Schurgen, Gwenn. Clarke-Pearson, Kathleen.
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Balakirev lived as a recluse in a house filled with dogs, cats and religious icons. The exception to this reclusiveness was the musical Tuesday evenings he held after his return to music in the 1870s and 80s. He also became a political reactionary and "xenophobic Slavophile who wrote hymns in honor of the dowager empress and other members of the royal family."Taruskin, Stravinsky, 73.
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Mark Lamming is a moderately successful biographer. He lives in the suburbs of London with his wife, Diana. His modesty and reclusiveness make him seem a person people can trust in. As he is very well-educated, literate and intellectual, he feels slightly uncomfortable and even superior when faced with people like Carrie; people who have read hardly any books and who are not schooled with literature.
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From 1968 onward, his songwriting output declined substantially, but the public narrative of "Brian-as-leader" continued. He became increasingly known for his reclusiveness and would not attract the level of press attention he achieved in the 1960s until a new marketing campaign, "Brian's Back!", was devised in 1976. By the 1970s, both fans and detractors began to view Wilson as a burned-out acid casualty.
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The founder's nephew Shahab al-Din Abu Hafs Umar Suhrawardi, author of Awarif ul-Maarif, ("The Heights of the Gnostics"), renounced reclusiveness and austerity in favour of an active life in society, maintaining close contact with the civil authorities and undertaking diplomatic missions and the political settlement of conflicts. His luxurious cloister in Baghdad, with gardens and bath houses, was built for him by Caliph an-Nasir.
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Hughes' gravestone Glenwood Cemetery Hughes is reported to have died on April 5, 1976, at 1:27 p.m. on board an aircraft, Learjet 24B N855W, owned by Robert Graf and piloted by Jeff Abrams. He was en route from his penthouse at the Acapulco Fairmont Princess Hotel in Mexico to the Methodist Hospital in Houston. His reclusiveness and possibly his drug use made him practically unrecognizable.
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Their brand benefited from this mystique of secrecy, but their reclusiveness was the subject of derision from other UK developers who otherwise greatly respected their work. The Stampers were known for working 18-hour days and believed that part-time work "resulted in a part-time game". They only took two days off: two Christmas mornings. Tim Stamper referred to his custom-built Lamborghini as a token of his hard work.
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The old man is mute and plays the viol with a local theater orchestra. He lives alone on the top floor and at night he plays strange melodies the student has never heard before. Despite Zann's reclusiveness, Blandot reveals his identity to the student, who approaches him in the hallway one evening and asks if he can listen to Zann's music. Zann relents and allows the student to enter his room.
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Simon began the series with the power of invisibility, tying into Simon's reclusiveness and how he feels 'invisible' when alienated by the rest of the group. While Initially he struggles with controlling his power, he gains access to it fairly quickly. in S2E7, Simon sells his power, and purchases another. Simon gains the ability of Foresight to begin with, making him able see the imminent future of a course of events.
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After the cricketer's death, a collection of personal letters written by Bradman to his close friend Rohan Rivett between 1953 and 1977 was released and gave researchers new insights into Bradman's family life, including the strain between father and son.Wallace, (2004), Chapter 6. Bradman's reclusiveness in later life is partly attributable to the ongoing health problems of his wife, particularly following the open-heart surgery Jessie underwent in her 60s.Williams (1996), p 271.
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The 1951 novel The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger has had a lasting influence as it remains both a bestseller and a frequently challenged book. Alternate URL. Numerous works in popular culture have referenced the novel. Factors contributing to the novel's mystique and impact include its portrayal of protagonist Holden Caulfield; its tone of sincerity; its themes of familial neglect, tension between teens and society, and rebellion; its previous banned status; and Salinger's reclusiveness.
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Juan leaves to seek out Penelope, Sam leaves out of mistrust for the group, with Dave following behind him. Putman leaves out of being haunted by dreams he had suffered whilst searching the jungle for clues, which culminated in his newfound reclusiveness. Dave manages to restore the electricity, seconds before the killer, having retrieved his machete, beheads Dave. Jenny and Lars are drawn by distorted music to the electricity hut where they find Dave's severed head.
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Apple's friend King Princess also encouraged the early release. Critics have commented on the timeliness of releasing the album during the pandemic, finding thematic relevance in its exploration of confinement, and comparing Apple's reclusiveness to the widespread self-isolation restrictions. No singles were issued from the album prior to its release, but "Shameika" was released to adult alternative radio on April 27 as the album's lead single. The album's title is quoted from Gillian Anderson's character in The Fall.
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Likewise, it inspired the idea that the neighbors would rebuild Flanders' house, but do a bad job and provoke an outburst. Writer John Swartzwelder's animated likeness can be seen in a padded cell, in reference to his reclusiveness. A caricature of John Swartzwelder can be seen shutting the door of a room in Calmwood Mental Hospital. Later in the episode, during the scene where the townsfolk are welcoming Ned back, someone can be seen holding a sign that says "Free John Swartzwelder".
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Hocus Bogus () is a 1976 novel by the French writer Romain Gary, published under the pseudonym Émile Ajar. The book was written after Paul Pavlowitch, the son of Gary's cousin, had been presented as the man behind the pseudonym Ajar. It asserts to tell the story of Pavlowitch's literary experiences from his own perspective, and comments on the recent success with The Life Before Us, the subsequent speculation that the author might be Gary, as well as explains his reclusiveness with the revelation that he has schizophrenia.
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He planted more than 250 trees around his house, which had a number of notices to deter uninvited visitors. Sorabji did not like the company of two or more friends simultaneously and would accept only one at a time, each about once or twice per year.Roberge (2020), pp. 296, 323 In an unpublished text titled The Fruits of Misanthropy, he justified his reclusiveness by saying, "my own failings are so great that they are as much as I can put up with in comfort—those of other people superadded I find a burden quite intolerable".
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He sued Hallmark Cards in 1994, when they used his name, and a recording of the "one small step" quote, in a Christmas ornament without his permission. The lawsuit was settled out of court for an undisclosed sum, which Armstrong donated to Purdue. For many years, he wrote letters congratulating new Eagle Scouts on their accomplishment, but decided to quit the practice in the 1990s because he felt the letters should be written by people who knew the scout. (In 2003, he received 950congratulation requests.) This contributed to the myth of his reclusiveness.
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As the story progresses the therapist becomes more embroiled in the lives of the patients, begins taking medication one of them gives him and investigates the machine in the basement of the hospital. The ward is overseen by Zack Busner, a position he also holds during the story "Dr Mukti" in another of Self's collections. ;"Understanding the Ur-Bororo"''' A man wonders what happened to his friend Janner from the days when they were at school in Reigate together. His friend had tended towards secrecy and reclusiveness at the time, before disappearing completely.
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Marlon Brando, who played Jor-El in the 1978 film, is cited for the misfortune he suffered in his private life, such as his son Christian's shooting of his half-sister Cheyenne's boyfriend in 1990 and subsequent five-year imprisonment, Brando's own admission in court that he had failed his son and daughter, his daughter's 1995 suicide and his later reclusiveness. He died in July 2004, three months before his Superman co-star Christopher Reeve. Footage of him would later be posthumously used in 2006's Superman Returns.
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Bruntsfield Hospital, now converted to private flats, 2010 Jex-Blake returned to Edinburgh where she leased a house at 4 Manor Place and in June 1878, put up her brass plate – Edinburgh had its first woman doctor. Three months later she opened an outpatient clinic at 73 Grove Street, Fountainbridge, where poor women could receive medical attention for a fee of a few pence. After her mother's death in 1881, Sophia Jex-Blake had a period of depressed reclusiveness. The Dispensary expanded by 1885 was moved to larger premises at 6 Grove Street where a small five-bed ward was added.
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The ill health of their daughter led the van 't Hoffs to move to Davos in Switzerland in 1931, but in 1937 they returned to England to settle permanently in Hampshire. The bombing of Coventry in 1940 profoundly touched van 't Hoff, who knew the city from his days studying in Birmingham and designed a large communal housing association building in the hope that the city could be rebuilt in accordance with his progressive ideals. In general, however, his last years in England were marked by increasing reclusiveness. The architect realised his last work in New Milton, (Hampshire, U.K.).
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Filming was originally set to begin in June 2003 before it was pushed to November 7, 2003, lasting until late January 2004. Eighty percent of Beyond the Sea was shot using sound stages at Babelsberg Studios in Germany and Pinewood Studios in England. Lulworth Cove, Dorset,David Williams, prop driver South West England doubled for Darin's setting of reclusiveness in Big Sur, California. In an attempt to convincingly portray Darin, particularly during the early stages of the singer's life depicted in the film, Spacey hired prosthetic makeup designer Peter King from The Lord of the Rings film trilogy.
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Andrew Ryan is a fictional character in the BioShock video game series developed by Irrational Games. He serves as the primary antagonist of the first half of the first BioShock and a minor character in its sequel, BioShock 2 and its prequel, BioShock Infinite: Burial at Sea. Ryan is portrayed as an idealistic business magnate in the 1940s and 1950s; seeking to avoid scrutiny from governments and other oversight, he ordered the secret construction of an underwater city, Rapture. When civil war sees Ryan's vision for a utopia in Rapture collapse into dystopia, he descends into reclusiveness and paranoia.
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David Couzens Hoy in However, Roquentin's predicament is not simply depression or mental illness, although his experience has pushed him to that point. Sartre presents Roquentin's difficulties as arising from man's inherent existential condition. His seemingly special situation (returning from travel, reclusiveness), which goes beyond the mere indication of his very real depression, is supposed to induce in him (and in the reader) a state that makes one more receptive to noticing an existential situation that everyone experiences, but may not be sensitive enough to let become consciously noticeable. Roquentin undergoes a strange metaphysical experience that estranges him from the world.
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Engemaan asked the group to be ready to deliver the new album (then known under the working titles The Fading Rock Group Revival or Reverberation) by May 1. Only seven of the ten tracks were completed by the deadline, and so the album was not delivered. In 1969, Brian began using cocaine and was increasingly known for his reclusiveness and eccentric behavior, which affected his reputation within the music industry. Grillo struggled to find another major label interested in signing the group, as he remembered, "Brian was notorious at that point" and label executives found the band too risky to sign.
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Syd Barrett was known to be reclusive. Reclusiveness may coincide with mental disorders and some persons may have speculative diagnoses of schizophrenia (see List of people with schizophrenia), but this does not mean that Barrett's songs, and the songs about him, concern reclusion: for example, the instrumental "Interstellar Overdrive" exemplify Pink Floyd's early psychedelic period. Barrett left Pink Floyd less than a year after the release of their first single, "Arnold Layne". He played with the band only on their first album (The Piper at the Gates of Dawn), recording two albums in 1970 (The Madcap Laughs and Barrett), the latter of which failed to chart.
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Swartzwelder is notoriously reclusive, and rarely, if ever, makes media appearances. At one point, fans of The Simpsons on the Internet even debated his existence: when considering his reclusiveness and the number of episodes credited to him, some theorized that "John Swartzwelder" was actually a pseudonym for when writers did not want to take credit for an episode, or for episodes that were penned by several writers in concert. Comedy writer Mike Sacks described Swartzwelder as the "Thomas Pynchon of the comedy world." He has not participated in any of the audio commentaries on The Simpsons DVD sets to date, despite being asked multiple times.
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As the series progresses, Kramer completely loses any hints of reclusiveness and becomes one of the most extroverted characters on the show. Kramer also gets his friends directly into trouble by talking them into unwise or even illegal actions such as parking illegally in a handicapped space ("The Handicap Spot"), urinating in a parking garage ("The Parking Garage"), committing mail fraud ("The Package") or even hiring an assassin to get rid of a dog ("The Engagement"). Kramer is also known to mooch off his friends, especially Jerry. Kramer regularly enters and uses Jerry's apartment without his consent or knowledge, and often helps himself to Jerry's food.
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"Cyberbrain hijacking" involves the replacement of a victim's cyberbrain with the criminal's own, while the same criminal retains another body in storage. Alternatively, a criminal may choose to place their cyberbrain into a copy of the victim's body, and then impersonate the victim. Both of these methods were portrayed in the Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex episode DI: Face – MAKE UP. In the series, is a form of cyberbrain-induced reclusiveness, occurring when users of cyberbrain technology shut themselves off from the outside world to avoid harming others or themselves. It can also be a psychological barrier induced by the subconscious to protect the ego from being overwhelmed by the depth and connective nature of the Internet.
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Along with Gengoroh Tagame, Jiraiya is regarded as one of the most influential and prolific creators of gay manga; Anne Ishii, the co-founder of Massive Goods, has stated that "if Tagame is the dark father of Japanese gay manga, Jiraiya is the fairy godmother." He has been compared to Tom of Finland in reference to the cultural impact of his work, and Martin Margiela in reference to his reclusiveness. His art has been praised for depicting East Asian men as physically strong and sexually desirable, subverting stereotypical portrayals of East Asian men as emasculated and asexual. His fashion designs have gained popularity in the LGBTQ hip hop scene, and have been worn by Tinashe, Cazwell, and Blood Orange.
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She decided to trust Oldman though as he suffers himself from OCD. Soon enough Virgil, a lifelong bachelor who is able to relate to her reclusiveness, understands that he has fallen in love with her. An astute young artificer, Robert (Jim Sturgess), aids Oldman in restoring and reassembling some odd mechanical parts that he finds among Claire's belongings, while also giving him advice on how to befriend her, and how to deal with his feelings towards her. Oldman's poise and prestige are counterpointed by an ongoing scam whereby his friend Billy Whistler (Donald Sutherland) helps him acquire a large private collection of master portraits worth many millions, by presenting them at auction as the work of other artists.
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M. A. "Mer" Yewdale (1908–2000) was an early 20th-century, West Coast Canadian pioneer and heritage artist, who created prolifically, with a bold and colourful palette. Producing an expansive array of several hundred artworks during her lifetime, she preferred to live a life of modesty and reclusiveness. She created her own expansive gardens, lived in the embrace of a natural wooded hillside forest, and wild creeks, and was totally and naturally, drawn into perfect harmony with her environment. She championed the voice of nature in a rapport that resonated with an intuitive empathy and passionate articulation of her subjects, no matter what the medium or genre, and was respected and cherished by those few who knew her as, "a national treasure".
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By 1969, Wilson was increasingly known for his reclusiveness, and could be found managing a health food store in West Hollywood called the Radiant Radish. Much of the group's recordings from 1967 to 1970 continued the pattern of sparse instrumentation, a more relaxed ensemble, and a seeming inattention to production quality. Harrison opined that this experimental songwriting and production phase lasted until Sunflower (1970), after which their albums "contain a mixture of middle-of-the-road music entirely consonant with pop style during the early 1970s with a few oddities that proved that the desire to push beyond conventional boundaries was not dead". Smile material continued to trickle out in later releases, often as filler songs to offset Brian's unwillingness to contribute.
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A total of nineteen distant relatives of Clarkthe last of whom saw her in 1957, and many of whom never met hersubsequently challenged the second will, citing her "obsession with high end, lifelike French and Japanese dolls, model castles, the Smurfs, her reclusiveness and tendency to give her money freely as evidence of mental illness." They also accused Peri, as well as her attorney and accountant, of defrauding her. While no one was charged with a crime, the accusations resulted in an investigation by the district attorney's office, who mandated that the will be settled before a jury trial. On September 24, 2013, Clark's will was finally settled, with the majority of the distant relatives receiving a total sum of $34.5 million.
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Hermit Cave complex in 1936 Deciding to stay on the hill and unaware that his old Italian colleagues, Ceccato and Bicego, had settled down nearby, Ricetti believed himself to be the only Italian in the area and so he kept entirely to himself, living in the cave as a home. His need for reclusiveness saw him keep a couple of places to hide in the event of people coming by and for one of these he built a stone walled circular cave around a large tree that had a peephole in it. This hideout was set amongst shrubs so that he could hide without being spotted but keep watch until the people had left. His industrious nature assisted by his background in dry stone walling saw him clear the site and create massive stone galleries, pathways, cliff side gardens, and floral painted rock walls.
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Funerary monument on a pillar in Holy Cross Church, Warsaw, enclosing Chopin's heart Jones comments that "Chopin's unique position as a composer, despite the fact that virtually everything he wrote was for the piano, has rarely been questioned." He also notes that Chopin was fortunate to arrive in Paris in 1831 – "the artistic environment, the publishers who were willing to print his music, the wealthy and aristocratic who paid what Chopin asked for their lessons" – and these factors, as well as his musical genius, also fuelled his contemporary and later reputation. While his illness and his love affairs conform to some of the stereotypes of romanticism, the rarity of his public recitals (as opposed to performances at fashionable Paris soirées) led Arthur Hutchings to suggest that "his lack of Byronic flamboyance [and] his aristocratic reclusiveness make him exceptional" among his romantic contemporaries such as Liszt and Henri Herz. Chopin's qualities as a pianist and composer were recognised by many of his fellow musicians.
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The unfortunate man was forced to his knees and coldly informed, "from where you are now to that corner is our music section", before being savagely kicked and ordered to search. He then inadvertently locks said customer in the shop for 2 weeks while noisy construction is occurring next door, and the customer emerges at the end of Bernard, Manny, and Fran's holiday, happy to have found his book, but driven mad by the noise next door. This combination of misanthropy and reclusiveness have combined to leave Bernard with questionable abilities of social interaction and personal hygiene. He is frequently found in the same black suit (later revealed to actually be an extremely dirty white suit'Moo-Ma and Moo-Pa', Black Books episode four, series three) and his idea of a stylish haircut is to get Manny to slice off clumps of his messy, overgrown hair (which has edible mushrooms in it) with a bread-knife.
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Robert Chambers and Irish Georgian Society founder Desmond Guinness claim that the rumour was current in her lifetime, but Thomas Kirkpatrick, author of History of Dr Steevens' Hospital Dublin, says that "There is absolutely no evidence of this story in contemporary records, nor indeed does it appear to have been connected with the good lady until the nineteenth century [...] It is not quite certain when this story first gained circulation. Croker-King, who wrote a history of the hospital in 1785, makes no mention of it, nor is there any suggestion of it in the newspaper accounts of the death of Madam Steevens, or the published account of the hospital in the eighteenth century." The rumour was that Griselda Steevens' reclusiveness and always being veiled were owing to her having been born with a pig's head. Chambers (1864) speculates that her unusual name may have contributed to the legend, and notes the common belief that she was named "Grisly" on account of her appearance when born.
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The cultural changes after the Heian period resulted in a more realistic depiction of figures including movements and gestures. Abandoning the Heian period hikime kagibana style ("slit eyes, hooked nose"),technique of representing the faces with four lines on a white background, similar to Noh masks to mark the extreme reclusiveness of the aristocrats figures were painted individual features and facial expressions that conveyed emotions and moods. More generally, M. Murase notes that the expression of feelings subtly changed compared to the scrolls of the 12th century; here the rooms (or the inner space, because it depends on the fusuma) in the palace are larger and less intimate or private, and nobles come and go naturally and determined. Unlike earlier scrolls such as the Genji Emaki, in which architecture and landscape were used as metaphors for people's emotions, interpersonal or societal pressures, in these scrolls the people's feelings are painted directly on the faces or shown through gestures, in addition to being expressed by the placement of characters within the scene.
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