Word: loser
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...cause I'm so fast," he explains. "Real fast." Especially after he snatches a purse. Or burglarizes a home. Or pulls a trigger. Sometimes, though, Sneakers isn't quite fast enough. He has already served three years for two robberies. Now 21, Sneakers is a two-time loser on the prowl in a three-strike state. But he's not worried that a third felony could put him away for life. "The law don't make no difference to me because I ain't gonna get caught," he says. "I mean, if I really thought I was gonna get caught...
...radio program itself wasn't all that true to the actors; the only one we recognise is Mark Hamill. Poor Luke: he has no career. Perhaps it's better to read the scripts than to hear the words spoken by scabs and loser actors who couldn't get other jobs...
...Wood script, by Scott Alexander and Larry Karaszewski (based on Rudolph Grey's excellent 1992 biography, Nightmare of Terror), posits Wood as a classic American optimist, a Capraesque hero with little to be optimistic about, since he was also a classic American loser. That's a fine start, but the film then marches in staid chronological order: Ed made this bad film, then this one, then a third. It focuses on the director's curious cast of hangers-on (played here by Bill Murray, Jeffrey Jones, Lisa Marie and others). They were all, as Wood's psychic sidekick Criswell intones...
When you think of a loser in college football, you think of Columbia. The Lions have not had a winning season in 23 years and are one of only two programs in the country that has been in existence for more than 20 years and still has a winning percentage below 400. This year will be no exception: the Lions will be praying for even one win in a much-improved league...
...discussions with Castro aimed at swapping an end to the U.S. trade embargo for Cuban reforms leading to a freer economy and politics. Some Administration policymakers are known to favor the idea, but Clinton and his top aides are adamantly opposed. Defense Secretary Perry dismisses the idea as "a loser...