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...wonders: Can this galloping metaphysical thriller find an audience? For the vast majority of today's moviegoers, the 18th century is far more remote than the sci-fi 25th; Salieri is a loser from Loserville; and Mozart, he's the guy who wrote Elvira Madigan, and his first name is Mostly, isn't it? The film's $18 million budget may be less than is spent on many a teenpic flop, but it still makes Amadeus a ricochet roll of the dice; the film will have to bring in more than $40 million...
...federal bailout of Chicago's Continental Illinois Bank, the troubles at F.C.A. were particularly unsettling to financial circles. After Knapp's press conference last week, the Dow Jones industrial average dipped more than 15 points. F.C.A., the most heavily traded stock of the day, was the biggest loser, falling 21A points to 5. A year...
...time she was six," he said. "I'm feeling happy for Mary Lou and Julianne and the same thing for my former girls." Little Szabo looks like she would sooner fall off the balance beam than neglect eye shadow. When Retton was the winner and she was the loser in the all-around, it was Szabo's turn to watch Karolyi dance...
Almost obsessively, Dixon has doomed the protagonist of most of his stories to repeated and often farcical failures in love. Whether named Mac, Jules or Will, he is conspicuously a loser. Speaking with a strikingly distinctive voice, this hapless character is alternately self-pitying and self-mocking, weepily sentimental and stonily sharp-witted. He unceasingly endures abuse, rejection, infidelity, abandonment and most of the other mortifications that can befall a man in the throes of passion...
...know what can be done to see that soccer receives as much publicity as the rest of the games," he said. "Soccer is not a loser, and the spectators have shown it is a winner. Television must play a positive role in the development of the game...