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...back to their room. He quickly seated himself on the black wooden Harvard chair and Adrian prepared to leave the room soon afterwards saying she had to meet somebody. She figured that Louise could deal with David. The minute he appeared she had sized him up as a real loser who thought he would get a head start on the rest of his classmates by courting Louise. Besides, he was Louise's responsibility since she had been the one to be so damn friendly on the subway...
Dartmouth stung for a run in the home half of the first inning off loser Ron Stewart. Stewart retired the first hitter but three pitches later the Woodsmen had their margin of victory with a single, stolen base and another single...
...would never belong to any club that has me for a member." The other is a neurotic self-indulgence, which expresses itself in fantasy. An element of fantasy has consistently pervaded Allen's films, beginning with the premise that svelte Diane Keaton could ever fall for such a patent loser. Often, the fantasy backfires; but in Annie Hall--as in real life, where Keaton and Allen are living together--fantasy has a way of coming true...
Some other measures of prosperity: the billion-dollar club gained 24 new members; 227 companies reported 1976 sales of $1 billion or more. Of these, 36 topped $5 billion, nine more than the year before. Only twelve of the 500 lost money, v. 28 in 1975. Biggest loser: Rohr Industries. It dropped $52.1 million, mostly in its rail-transit-equipment business, which it plans...
...novel, Adam Kennedy's The Domino Principle was a thriller of more than usual style, distinguished by a fairly serious attempt to penetrate the mind of the sort of loser who, if properly manipulated, can be turned into a political assassin. Now the book has fallen into the heavy hands of Director Stanley Kramer, and, despite Kennedy's presence at the screenwriter's keyboard, everything that made the book good, popular fiction has somehow been lost...