Word: hard-luck
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Americans have a love affair with people who keep trying and trying. A larger-than-life statue of Rocky Balboa stands in front of Philadelphia's Veterans Stadium. The hard-luck Joads of John Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath are among the most beloved families of American fiction. In some parts of the country William Jennings Bryant, despite his three failed attempts for the White House, is still a populist hero...
...best songs (I Don't Wanna Play House, D-I-V-O-R-C-E, Dear Daughters) are bedtime stories for a child from a ravaged home; they translate complex hurts into simple poetry. That could be a definition of country music, and Wynette is its most plangent hard-luck heroine since Patsy Cline...
Hofstra sealed the win in the second frame when it scraped up two more runs off of hard-luck loser Fromholz. Despite a solid outing--giving up only one earned run in seven innings--the sophomore hurler was victimized by a less than over-powering performance at the plate by her Crimson teammates...
...first American to win this event since 1956, setting a new Olympic record in the process. "I knew it was going to take my best jump ever," said Ritter, who had only once before jumped 6 ft. 8 in. Until last week, she was known as something of a hard-luck case. The jumper broke her ankle, for example, the day after she made the 1980 Olympic team. She also had a reputation for choking at big meets, placing only eighth in Los Angeles. But in Seoul it was Kostadinova who choked. Asked if she was happy with her effort...
...with all kinds of innocence and perversion: one concert scene flashes between an emotional gospel tune and a simpering, streetcorner Bible thumper, also played by Waits; another shifts between Waits singing on stage, and, as Frank, mouthing the same song on the roof of a building, as if the hard-luck lyrics were straight reportage of what's below him. Because there's no plot or dialogue to speak of, almost everything is conveyed by symbol--the three characters, the handheld lamp which focuses the audience's attention on his face, the bathtub that Frank sings in at the movie...