Word: losers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Amtrak. Since its beginnings in 1971, the federally supported passenger rail system has been a money loser. Yet people in towns and cities that benefit from the service have made their will felt on Capitol Hill. Government subsidies have steadily swelled, reaching $779 million in the last fiscal year, or about $2 in federal funds for every $1 taken in at Amtrak ticket windows. Insisting that Amtrak will have to improve its management and save money, OMB proposed that the subsidy be cut to $634 million...
...read any of them intelligently with all this gabble going on? In the big game of is he or isn't he, the author is the one sure loser...
...loser in the ensuing chaos is Tomlin. As written by Wagner, the film's heroine is defined more by brand names (Gucci, Mercedes, Perrier) than emotions or intellect. There are only silly plot devices to motivate her on-again, off-again affair with the street-kid hero, Strip. Tom lin has so little to work with that she falls back on fey comic mannerisms and, finally, phony swoons and sighs. It is the first time that this usually empathetic actress has stood completely outside the character she is playing. Instead of creating a latter-day version of Anne Bancroft...
...country cover of the Stones' No Expectations; a little lyrical autobiography; and a 3%-min. Bildungsroman called The Gambler, in which the worldly title character hands down a little useful guidance to the youthful narrator: "Every hand's a winner/ Just like every hand's a loser/ And the best that you can hope for/ Is to die in your sleep...
What? Who's chicken? Okay, wise guy, you asked for it! Just make sure your girdiron retards in New Haven bring their hankies because nobody calls Joe Restic a chicken and gets away with it! Later, loser...