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...after the election, Washington was host at a unity luncheon. He was flanked by the two rivals he had defeated in the Democratic primary last February: Jane Byrne, the departing mayor, and Richard Daley, son of the legendary boss. Bernard Epton, last Tuesday's Republican loser, skulked off to Florida, leaving his brother to fill in at the lunch. Epton's lack of grace seemed to diminish rather than heighten the tensions: at that moment, it was hard to argue that the better man had lost...
Somehow, spurred perhaps by the specter of himself as a loser, Mondale last summer finally got going again. He toughened up his speeches, put in longer days. When his staff handed him fund-raising lists, he sat down and made the grueling calls himself. He even agreed to a speech coach to help him appear more incandescent. He searched for an issue that matched his new forceful style and found one: a blunt call for the U.S. to get a lot tougher about Japanese trade. The high rhetoric had all the sounds of an illiberal protectionism, but Mondale plowed ahead...
Unfortunately, the real loser in this book is neither biological nor cultural determinism, but Margaret Mead herself. Freeman ignores the fact that, to some degree, she and Boas were more interested in studying cultural variations themselves than deciding whether such variations meant that men were not bound by their genes. Worse, Freeman portrays Mead as a possessed and ignorant follower of Boas who was duped by her Samoan informants. When he spoke last month, Freeman voiced the opinion that, because of her involvement with Boas, Margaret Mead was "more sinned against that sinning." Freeman's own book, important...
...ethnic comedy ("The Jewish prince doesn't mean 'Where's the butter?' He means 'Get me the butter'") might have come from a property settlement with her first husband. But when Ephron is herself, she can be the most painfully funny two-time loser in America. For months, people will be debating whether Rachel's analyst Vera Maxwell is based on Nora's therapist Mildred Newman (How to Be Your Own Best Friend), or if Pollster Pat Caddell's white and black beard has been transferred to the chin of Carl...
Dignity is a quality that Shroeder Duncan, the laid-back loser of Murphy Guyer's Eden Court, would gladly settle for. Murphy has a dead-end job, a cluttered mobile home, a cynical pal (Steve Rankin) and a wife (the elfin Holly Hunter) who still carries a torch for Elvis Presley. This comedy's ambitions are no loftier than Shroeder's; it is just a tasty slice of lowlife, but full of sweet feeling for its tattered eccentrics. As Shroeder, Actor-Playwright Guyer is a brown study of the good ole boy, wondering what ever happened...