Word: loserness
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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Each of the nine stories in Joe Ollmann's new black and white paperback, "Chewing on Tinfoil," (Insomniac Press; 155 pp.; $15.95) feature some sort of (un)lovable loser. The alienated high-school kid, office milquetoast, pretentious layabout, lapsed art student, and bowl-hair-cut kid: all these and more appear in its pages. Ollmann's work is new to me, and it has the leaps and falls of a new artist extending himself. Some of the tales are artless swipes at the usual archetypes, but enough of the stories surprise you with odd details or an unexpected twist...
...Only in America, with our under-funded education system, could the loser become a winner,” Jackson said. “[America has] 100 million people who wanted to vote, who wanted to participate, but don’t believe in our democracy anymore...
...Edwards' loser love affair kicks off with Six O'Clock News, a nearly great song about a pregnant woman who watches as her lover is shot dead during a police standoff. Read the chorus--"I tried to come clean but I guess it's no use/Your face is all over the six o'clock news/They cleared the streets and then they closed the schools/I can't even get inside"--and you will pine for the good cheer of a Morrissey album. But Six O'Clock News opens with a wry guitar riff, and Edwards' upbeat, breathy vocal comes through surprisingly...
...great play by Johnson almost made BU a rare Beanpot loser. Johnson appeared contained on the fateful 2-on-1 break, but then cut in front of the net, drawing the attention of Fields and defender Ryan Whitney. He then slipped a perfect pass back to Welch, who was streaking down the other side. Welch got off a good shot, but it just wasn’t enough to beat Fields...
...relationships--say, between sales of cameras and atlases. Consider: a slow-selling line of chicken pieces was slated for discontinuation at Sam's Clubs. But the software noticed that the customers who did buy the product were huge spenders on other merchandise. So the item wasn't necessarily a loser if it helped keep those customers coming...