Word: losers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Vernon, now 36, is the classic loser. His act, always in the same minor key, begins with an apology: "I'm only doing this because I couldn't get a job in my regular line of work. I'm a Viking." He lugubriously narrates his biography: "My grandfather was an old Yugoslavian guerrilla fighter. My grandmother was an old Yugoslavian guerrilla. My family was so underprivileged we used to get food from Europe. Finally I was adopted by a Korean family...
This year's loser seemed to be Hubert de Givenchy, who for years has been making Audrey Hepburn look young even before she needed any artificial aids. It seems he is hung up on the same little-nothing dress that was a wow five years ago. Givenchy fled even before his collection had been completely shown, and the only applause came when someone opened a window...
...took the beating he had expected, and he was a graceful loser. In his concession speech to weeping admirers in Springfield, Ill., he said in a somewhat halting way: "Someone asked me, as I came in, how I felt, and I was reminded of a story that a fellow townsman of ours used to tell-Abraham Lincoln. They asked him how he felt once after an unsuccessful election. He said he felt like a little boy who had stubbed his toe in the dark. He said that he was too old to cry, but it hurt too much to laugh...
...whole haul of new shows, only one appears in concept to have any chance of duplicating the originality of that departed trio. The Trials of O'Brien (CBS) is about a lawyer, but, as portrayed by engaging Peter Falk, O'Brien may be TV's first loser-hero. He ducks out of the office to the race track or a crap game, where he's chronically behind, is also nine months in arrears on his rent, and is more or less consistently chased by his ex-wife for back alimony...
...official policy of Harold Wilson's government. And few really wanted to muzzle the royal consort. "Over a period of years, he has succeeded in being pungent, constructive, and to the point on an exceptionally wide range of topics," commented the London Times. "The nation would be the loser if any serious attempt were made to impose some constitutional silence upon the Duke...