Word: losers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Broadway standards, the dances proved to be crowd rousers on opening night. Otherwise, Composer Shostakovich's first excursion into musical comedy got only tepid applause. The Moscow cognoscenti diagnosed Cheryomushki as an unequal contest between composer and librettists, with Shostakovich's music clearly coming out the loser...
...skinny, green-eyed guy with the hurt, hesitant frown looked like a loser -the kind of character who can never quite cope with life's ludicrous little defeats. Wherever he slouched in front of an audience-last month on the bare bandstand of a Chicago nightclub, this week before the unforgiving cameras of Ed Sullivan's TV show-it seemed hardly probable that sad-sack Monologuist Shelley Berman could deliver...
...Born Loser. For Author Tevis a poolroom at 9 a.m. can seem like a "large church." But Eddie only knows the stale cigar and cigarette smoke, the massiveness of mahogany tables squatting impersonally, the lone hustler practicing shots. Hours may pass in a close game when the only life the hustler sees consists of shaded light on the brushed green cloth, the movement of balls elegantly cued, the sensuous dropping of globes into pockets. When it is over, win or lose, he wanders out into the streets that are usually slummy and unfriendly and back to a hotel room whose...
...point Eddie is $18,000 ahead, and the great Fats seems to have met his master. But it is Eddie who cracks, turns to the bottle for help, and takes the pool beating of his life because, as an onlooker tells him later, he is "a born loser...
After all the ups-and-downs counting of the 1958 elections, the Gallup poll this week found Democrats favoring a party leader who had barely participated in the campaign. Indeed, Two-Time Loser Adlai Stevenson's following increased impressively over last June, when the pollsters took a pre-election look at 1960 presidential preference. The leaders, then and now, among Democratic voters...