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...Giant. It helped that all three were excellent films; it helped more that Dean spoke a secret language to teenagers just as they were becoming a significant marketing niche. In his bruised blond beauty, young people saw what they thought they looked like inside. What they felt like too: loser-loners whose heroism only the camera could detect. Dean's acting style was a time capsule of 1950s alienation. But his appeal, and the cult of this dying faun, spans the decades...
...Still, Blair was the biggest loser. He has already announced this term will be his last. Wounded by the Iraq war and a campaign that culminated in bitter attacks on his character, he just limped across the finish line. Instead of bestowing a new mandate upon him, the election brought difficult questions: Can a man so furiously branded a liar resume normal political leadership? How much legislation can Blair pass, given that his parliamentary caucus is reduced and no longer views him as a vote-winning magician? Where, precisely, is the tipping point after which power will start cascading...
...think this guy is a loser...
Meanwhile, other forum topics include “before the hell begins” (“Is it true that doing dorm crew makes you a loser? I heard that somewhere”), “Intellectual Debate” (“First of all, the plural of jedi is jedi”), and “must-have’s for dorm rooms” (“i’m going to princeton?...
...kiss not a smile/ Just open the door and let me lie down for a while," and the quixotic lover of All the Way Home, whose modest flirtation at last call amounts to "Maybe your first choice he's gone," suffer from near fatal cases of beautiful loser-itis. When Springsteen shifts into reportage, his details--the way turtles eat the skin from the corpse's eyes on Matamoros Banks, a prostitute's price for sex on Reno--can seem like overcompensation for his romantic indulgences...