Word: loser
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...would have found it hard to enforce the outcome. Any decision on a new constitution would have to come from the Congress's unwilling legislators. In any case, as long as this power struggle continues and the two leaders are engaged in personal combat, the real loser is the reform program, which has already been much diluted by compromise...
Falling Down attempts to balance his imbalance with the presence of a cop named Prendergast (Robert Duvall). He, too, is something of a loser, due to retire prematurely from the force at the end of the day. But he has the qualities everyone needs to survive in the city these days -- good humor, patience, some compassion. These, however, are quiet virtues, and even though they are expertly embodied by Duvall, they are passive. They are not, at least, cinematic virtues. He can't really compete for the camera's attention. Or ours. When the film is over, it's hard...
...Phantom is the outsider, the Steppenwolf. In many ways he captures a central irony of our times: it's the one who has the imperfect appearance who has a kind of moral perfection." The superiority of the wounded: it is a metaphor that speaks -- no, it sings -- to every loser in love or in life...
...career-conscious baby boomers are cringing in the glare of Bill Clinton's achievements, imagine how tough it is for the next President's half brother. After all, Americans reserve a special cruelty for the relatives of the prominent. In a country that despises losers, the biggest loser of all is perhaps the weak brother who is made even weaker by his brother's success. At the same time, Americans want their leaders to be godlike but still connected to the soil from which they sprang; so it is psychologically useful if the President is a colossus but his brother...
Carter patterned most of his speech after his latest book, Turning Point: A Candidate, a State, and a Nation Come of Age. The book describes his 1962 campaign for the Georgia Senate, in which he fought vote fraud and anoutdated electoral system that originally declaredhim the loser...