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"Reclusive" here means that he avoided literary parties, didn't give interviews and never popped up on television or in lecture halls rattling on about himself.
The Guardian World News Kathryn Hughes 2011
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"Man Who Brutally Killed Fellow Bus Passenger 'Reclusive' but 'Decent' Person" -- headline, Canadian Press, March 4
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Reclusive novelist who claims to have died, though I suspect it's just his latest attempt to get people to leave him alone.
Tallulah Morehead: Dead Folks 2010: Everyone's Pushing Up Roses Tallulah Morehead 2011
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Reclusive author of the 20th-century classic The Catcher in the Rye, whose hero Holden Caulfield spoke for rebellious youth
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Reclusive heiress Huguette Clark used most of her estimated $400 million estate to establish a foundation to promote the arts, according to a will filed in Manhattan court Wednesday.
Heiress Gives Millions to Nurse, Arts Stephen Miller 2011
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Reclusive novelist who claims to have died, though I suspect it's just his latest attempt to get people to leave him alone.
Tallulah Morehead: Dead Folks 2010: Everyone's Pushing Up Roses Tallulah Morehead 2011
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Reclusive British comedy genius Chris Morris came out with his darkly surreal masterpiece of weirdness, "Jam" (based on his "Blue Jam" radio show) in 2000, but sadly because of expensive music rights issues, "Jam" has seldom been seen outside of the UK.
Boing Boing 2009
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SEOUL, South Korea mdash; Reclusive North Korean leader Kim Jong Il arrived on a luxury 17-car train in China on Monday, reports said, in what ...
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SEOUL, South Korea — Reclusive North Korean leader Kim Jong Il arrived on a luxury 17-car train in China on Monday, reports said, in what would be his first journey abroad in years as his regime faces a worsening economy and speculation it may have torpedoed a South Korean warship.
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Reclusive North Korean leader Kim Jong-il makes his first trip abroad since a suspected stroke in 2008.
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