We were deeply flawed, unhappy people with lousy lives.
"It's that dumb arse Niemeyer," says a character in one of Regina Rheda's short stories about his huge Copan apartment building in São Paulo, "like everything he did, it's good for taking pictures, but lousy to live in".
But while Brooklyn may be lousy with living writers, dead ones seem to be a bit thinner on the grounds at Green-Wood, unless you count the late-19th-century dime-romance novelist Laura Jean Libbey or Stuart M. Berger, whose "Dr. Berger's Immune Power Diet" was a best seller in the mid-1980s.
Such a raft of challenges are not completely foreign to his creator, C. D. Payne, who has spent significant chunks of his own career struggling, working a series of lousy jobs, living in a trailer for four years and receiving a trail of rejection letters, professional and otherwise.
"What a lousy way to live".
As he says: "New York is generally a lousy town to live in as a Shakespeare Fan.
One: the Albert Hall is a lousy venue for live comedy (I saw Bob Hope there, and even he was awful).
(Platini scored a deflected winner, but Bergreen did a decent job and lamented Platini's "lousy shot" on live TV after the game).
Mr. Hanna, whose efforts to re build Utica were often overshadowed by the publicity he got for actions like calling the city "a lousy place to live," bolstered the contention that his decision to resign was health-related by including a list of his daily medications in his news release.
In his 30 years in and out of office, Mr. Hanna -- a blunt, and, some would say, bullying politician -- erected a carillon outside City Hall to chime "My Way" on the hour, and publicly declared his fair city "a lousy place to live".
