Word: hard-luck
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...happened again in 2000, with the movie of Daniel Clowes' alienation epic Ghost World. And now we're coming back to the graphic novel yet again thanks to the film American Splendor, which is based on the autobiographical comic book by Harvey Pekar, who writes about life as a hard-luck, sad-sack, hospital file clerk in Cleveland, Ohio. He's no superhero: the only flying he does is under the radar...
Weak hitting and poor defense ruined solid outings from senior Kenon Ronz and sophomore Mike Morgalis. Ronz was particularly effective in the second game, striking out nine and allowing one earned run in 8.2 innings, but wound up a hard-luck loser...
...members of Harvard’s class of 2003—all but two of them pitchers—had won an Ivy weekend start in the same season. Against Columbia, two nearly did in the same day. Southpaw Kenon Ronz got the win in Game One, validating a hard-luck class of moundsmen who’ve had their moments, but have never been consistent...
Think of Idol (Tuesdays, 9 p.m. E.T. and Wednesdays, 9:30 p.m. E.T.), which landed two episodes in the Top 20 its first week, as Star Search Goes to Hell. At heart it's an ordinary music contest: hopeful talent, shattered dreams, hard-luck stories and more renditions of I Will Always Love You than you can shake Whitney Houston at. But what has instantly made it America's new favorite source of schadenfreude--or maybe second favorite after Martha Stewart--is the full-contact judging of Cowell, along with his kindlier partners, veteran music exec Randy Jackson and Laker...
Birtwell, one of the team's most vocal clubhouse leaders, was the victim of several hard-luck losses over the course of the season...