Word: lucklessly
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...someone please tell you how many World Series the Red Sox have won since 1918 now? Can someone please tell you what the Red Sox are in the public consciousness, if they are no longer the Yankees’ tragically embittered, totally luckless rivals? What they are if not just another team that has improbably beaten the Yankees once in their organization’s history—but, of course, is still nowhere near the 26-time World Champions? Nowhere near the best franchise in professional sports...
...couple of weeks ago, Michel Gondry had a nightmare. The Frenchman is a filmmaker, but in his dream he was the lead character in a semiautobiographical movie. Playing him was French actor Patrick Dewaere, who was popular for playing luckless losers and social misfits in the 1970s until he committed suicide. "This guy blew his brains out," Gondry says, in an accent as strong as ripe Roquefort. "I'm really scared of dying." Dewaere as Gondry was in a car, with "this beautiful woman who was a mixture of three or four girls who broke my heart...
...books that had influenced him. Mostly he went for the heavy hitters--Plutarch, the Bible, The Pilgrim's Progress--but one of his choices sticks out for its total obscurity: James Riley's An Authentic Narrative of the Loss of the American Brig Commerce, a memoir by a luckless sea captain who was shipwrecked on the Saharan coast of Africa, where unspeakably horrible things happened to him. Dean King, the author of a biography of Patrick O'Brian (of Master and Commander fame), stumbled on a copy of Riley's memoir and decided to produce a thoroughly researched, authoritative account...
...British press is playing his win as a redemption story. But does the book really make up for the long rap sheet? Vernon God Little is a black comedy about a luckless teenage loser living in Martirio, billed as the Barbecue Sauce Capital of Texas. Little's friend Jesus Navarro has just committed a horrendous Columbine-style massacre at their high school, and Little, who was in the wrong place at the wrong time, gets charged as an accessory. Little's desperate attempts to exonerate himself only wind up exposing the venal hypocrisies of the people around...
...itself innovative, several aspects of the production made the work notable. The music, although not flawlessly performed, was an eclectic mix of modern classical styles which combined with voice and lighting to create a sense of muted internal struggle. The repetition of the lead male part solidified the luckless lover’s deep mournfulness and confusion while he was simultaneously subject to attack by both the feminine and masculine persona as embodied in the “man” and “woman...