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...Gore. Television images of the two fortysomething men calling for change "help us make our case that it's the new against the old," says Clinton strategist James Carville. Democratic pollster Geoffrey Garin says if voters are closely divided between Bush and Clinton in November, the Quayle-Gore mismatch "has the potential to be a scale tipper in favor of the Democrats...
...more than 80 Japanese bombers caught the Prince of Wales on a glassy sea under a cloudless sky, vulnerable as a jeweled dowager surrounded by more than 80 switchblades. The warships zigzagged wildly as they unleashed a barrage of antiaircraft fire, but it was a hopeless mismatch. Two torpedoes tore apart the Prince of Wales' stern, disabling its rudder, filling its engine room with steam. The Repulse dodged nearly 20 torpedoes before four more ripped her open...
...with no help, thank you, from the long-departed Mr. Tate. ("Dede says I don't have a dad," Fred notes in the film's narration. "She says I'm the Immaculate Conception. That's a pretty big responsibility for a little kid.") They are a sublime mismatch of the sort usually found only in marriages. Fred balances Mom's checkbook and, as a Mother's Day gift, writes her an opera. Dede brags, like a tough schoolkid, about how she aced out some fastidious jerk in her basement laundry. For her, chain letters are literature. The boy, a nonstop...
...side set the tone for the mismatch early, scoring two tries within the game's opening 10 minutes. Junior forward Ben Frickle scored twice, and by halftime the Crimson was ahead...
...scoops (CBS's McKeown's in Kuwait City), its stars (NBC's Pentagon whiz Fred Francis), its high points and its low moments during the war, ABC emerged as the clear and decisive overall winner. What was once a three-way race may be developing into a long- term mismatch...