Word: georgetown
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Illinois, Georgetown, Pitt and UNLV--all good college basketball teams--forgot to put on their party clothes...
When the buzzer went off at the end of the 1985 NCAA Basketball Championship Game, Georgetown looked perplexed. The Hoyas, the favorites to capture their second-straight title, had just fallen to Villanova in the deciding game of the tournament...
Patrick Ewing, Georgetown's giant center, smiled vaguely, watching with a trickle of amused uncertainty as the Villanova players climbed all over each other at midcourt...
...other Georgetown players huddled around Ewing. They did not look sad. They did not look resigned. There were no tears. There were no bowed heads...
Gore is a combination of St. Alban's polish and down-home charm, Harvard intellectualism and backwoods shrewdness. He is almost as at home wearing pointy cowboy boots as clunky wing tips, drinking Corona beer in a rowdy bar as sipping Chablis in a Georgetown salon. But not quite. Now, in an effort to reposition himself, Gore the cerebral technocrat is coming on like a fiery champion of "working men and women." His problem is making the transformation credible. On the stump, he attempts to heighten emotions simply by raising the volume of his voice. Though he has fought...