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...What no one on the team understands is that being oblivious to how you are perceived is the easiest path to unlikability. The lovable loser knows he's hopelessly flailing, while the plain old loser keeps up the ugly charade. And although ignoring reality may seem dignified, it's really like Michael Dukakis' riding in the tank and thinking it made him look like a warrior. The lovable loser has more dignity because he keeps going despite his awareness of futility: he knows it's stupid to raise taxes and not lose every state except Minnesota, to try to kick...
Olivia Hunt, 34, is a loser. She lost her job at Universal Studios after the movie she worked on--Lloyd, the Hamster--flopped at the box office. Her dream project, a film adaptation of Don Quixote, is going nowhere. Her boyfriend Michael recently bailed on her. And she just noticed a mustache hair on her upper lip. "Jimmy Stewart," she writes to a friend, "had a helluva lot more to live for when he tried to off himself in It's a Wonderful Life...
...what they knew. Everything else was, 'We'll deal with it later.' Now it's later, and there are only bad and worse outcomes." It just adds to the burdens Blair is taking to Washington this week. His instinct to stick closely to Bush is now a big political loser, his poll numbers never lower. The failure to find weapons of mass destruction in Iraq leaves many wondering whether politically motivated U.S. intelligence sold him a bill of goods. The American-led occupation of Iraq has been badly organized and is getting uglier, sticking British troops with an expensive...
...same as introspection. Glass literally does not know what to do with himself. He doesn't seem to know he's a cross between two classic American characters--the confidence man and the young man on the make. Saul Bellow would have made him an intricate, sweaty loser. Glass is content to offer himself up as an infantile schnook. Thanks to a good woman and a good rabbi, he eventually discovers both love and God, though not the power to resist writing lines like this: "Her pixie blonde hair and gamine charm go straight to my heart...
Consequently, the proposed move by the MBTA is illogical, even if purely for administrative reasons. The MBTA—the government agency that operates the Boston area mass transit system, including the subway, the trolleys, the buses and the commuter railroad—is a perennial money-loser. Fares are deliberately set below the break-even point in order to keep public transportation affordable for Boston’s poorest citizens; state tax revenues help keep the agency afloat. And with the state government facing a huge budget crisis, and the MBTA contemplating another fare hike, it is sheer folly...