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Joffe considers Manhattan the culmination "of a 20-year ongoing discussion, a serious film that's a drama with comedy rather than a comedy with drama." So, it seems, the beloved loser was misleading everyone (well, almost everyone) all along, that the fierce, dogged spirit of a deeply committed artist lurked in side that scrawny frame. It is hard to say where he will go in the years to come, but perhaps Brickman offers the best clue when he talks about his disagreement with Woody about pizza. When they dine together, Brickman says, "I like the combination pizza. I think...
...national tour--though probably a money-loser in itself--has done its share to boost the money flowing into the Met from its national audience. The tour also strengthens the Met's claim to be a national resource when it goes to seek grants from the federal government and national foundations...
When Congress formed Amtrak in 1971, the idea was that a national passenger rail service would make money. But the federally supported rail system has been a steady loser and a growing drain on the public purse. The Government subsidy in 1978 reached $578 million, or about $2 in taxpayers' funds for every $1 taken in fares. Last week the Senate Commerce Committee began hearings to decide just what to do about...
Added Iranian Scholar Jim Bill: "There is a record of blundering in Iran -the story hasn't even begun to be told yet-that compromised our national interests in a very serious way in that part of the world. We continued to support a succession of losers. We supported the Shah to the absolute last possible moment. The only thing we didn't do for him is send troops. Then when his people drove him from the country, we switched to another loser. Anyone could see that [Shahpour] Bakhtiar [whom the Shah named Prime Minister before he left...
...Bilandic is a loser--a victim of the only force that has ever beaten the Machine in more than 50 years: Mother Nature. It didn't snow inches in Chicago this winter, it snowed feet--seven and a half of them. More than 100 people died of snow-related causes and for six weeks everyone else in Chicago had trouble walking across the street and getting their cars out of their driveways. The incumbent's diminutive challenger, a venomous former consumer sales commissioner by the name of Jane Byrne, branded the Mayor "the Abominable Snowman" for his lackadaisical clean...