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...example, TV audiences were not ready for his first series, The Trials of O'Brien, in which he played a lawyer who could not resist a crap game or meet an alimony-payment deadline. Now, after the troubled '60s, viewers seem readier to identify with a loser hero. In the ratings among TV's new law-and-order leading men, Falk is murdering such handsome smoothies as Glenn Ford, Rock Hudson and James Garner...
...Humphrey himself come to dominate the race for the presidential nomination? Despite his relatively easy re-election to the Senate in 1970, he still carries the stigma of a loser who might not be able to win against a Nixon equipped with a series of presidential successes. Humphrey claims that on the Viet Nam issue he has as "good" a record since 1968 as any of the potential candidates. But there are those on the party's left who will never forgive him for not breaking with Lyndon Johnson over Viet Nam in the 1968 campaign. A Humphrey nomination...
...black literature of childhood, the book will not rank with Christina Stead's horror story of family life, The Man Who Loved Children. Lucia is less a person than an argument. Most adults, the book suggests, are losers, and most children feel the lash of a loser's fury a hundred times a day. To make the point, Author Grant makes Lucia's life a masochistic nightmare in a gallery of Halloween horribles. Her mother is a festering grievance, her father an intellectual wimp, her aunts and uncles high-church lobsters of menacing respectability...
...even reappear last week to greet their visiting Pakistani counterparts, an occasion when protocol absolutely demanded the presence of Peking's military chiefs. Still, the only certain judgment was that, whatever the nature of the struggle, Premier Chou En-lai was not likely to come up a loser. The abundance of Chou protégés on the delegation due in Manhattan this week seems proof that the agile Chou has not lost his footing...
...hope of escape. According to their depiction of him, he was not merely a man of extremes but one possessed and perverted by absolutes. To substantiate their charge, they cite Jackson's records as a criminal and as a con. The authorities note that he was a three-time loser and accumulated 45 charges against himself while he was an inmate--including the charge of murder...