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...PRAISE OF THE STEPMOTHER by Mario Vargas Llosa (Farrar, Straus & Giroux; $18.95). The loser of Peru's presidential election returns to his typewriter with a sexy novel that proves the brain is also an erogenous zone...
...team that blew leads on a regular basis and supplied the Cowboys with their only win. It was bad for my self-esteem. It was bad for my resume. Admitting to a medical school interviewer that I was a Redskins' fan, I reasoned, would be tantamount to stamping "LOSER" across my face...
...evidence for this conclusion seems a little . . . well, marginal; a lawyer might call it pure hearsay. The motive is class resentment (a couple of lads working on the estate held Jones in utter contempt), but even Perry Mason might turn into a loser trying to sell a judge that one. Even if the research were more solid, Hotchner thinks so little of the Stones and manifests such indifference to rock that his book creates an atmosphere that would put anyone, not just a fan, on the defensive. Hotchner quotes at length from Jagger and Richards, but they did not cooperate...
...sore loser," said Hussein Haqqani, a spokesperson for the caretaker government. "She's finding it hard to accept that she's no longer on the pedestal and that she is no longer the heroine of democracy. After a few days she'll have to accept...
Wild at Heart, which sends a pair of loser lovers (Nicolas Cage and Laura Dern) on a trip into the dark night of the Southern Gothic soul, is a tonic for the senses and an assault on the sensibilities. Heads splatter, skulls explode, biker punks torture folks for the sheer heck of it, and a pair of loopy innocents find excitement in a side trip to hell. Pretty much like Blue Velvet. Yes, it's different, but the same kind of different; Lynch could no longer shock by being shocking. Many critics figured they had solved the mystery...