Word: loser
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Eddie Quinn turns to his wife Maureen and warns her against trying to figure him out. "You can't understand my obscurity," he says, "unless you have infrared vision." Actually, Eddie, the flailing loser played by Sean Penn in the new lower-depths romance She's So Lovely, is as easy to read as the funny papers. He loves the mouthy Maureen (Penn's own wife Robin Wright Penn) and will do anything to keep her or get her back. Penn, though, is a more challenging read: Studs Lonigan, say, rewritten by Brando's tougher kid brother...
...behind this lies something even edgier and more discomfiting, a connection between the amazing economy and the sick joke: the attitude that if this rising tide doesn't lift your boat, you must be one hell of a loser...
...damage control that trips up the Republicans. Whether the issue has been funding disaster aid or shutting down the government, the G.O.P. Congress has managed to double its losses--first by picking the wrong fights with Bill Clinton and then by not giving up when it came out the loser. Now, as both sides prepare for what could be a month-long battle over how to shape the first tax cut in 16 years, Republicans face an entirely new question: Are they smart enough to know when they...
...hoppers than as company loyalists, they profess far more satisfaction with their work than their elders. "Boomers entered the marketplace years ago with high expectations," says Yankelovich's Smith. "And when they were disappointed, they thought the future looked bleak for Xers. So they portrayed them as a loser generation...
...about global telephone wars, deregulation and anticompetitiveness. Policy wonks can ponder such issues all they want in view of the possible $50 billion merger of long-distance king AT&T with regional phone operator SBC Communications. Investors need consider only one thing to conclude that the deal is a loser: break-ups almost always are more valuable than megamergers, and AT&T's own history provides a storehouse of evidence. That this deal is even on the drawing board is more confounding than Dennis Rodman...