Word: overdogs
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...fresh from rehab. Eddie was once again cute, dazzling, working overtime to please. Relocating his strength as a mimic, he played seven characters, all brilliantly. The one unattractive figure, Buddy Love, was a wicked stretch of the Eddie Murphy personality that moviegoers had tired of: sleek, preening, abrasive, an overdog in love with itself. The other characters were marvels not just of makeup but also of comic sympathy; Sherman Klump and his pudgy, putrefactive family had humor and heart. The $130 million box-office take showed how much affection filmgoers still had for Murphy. They hoped it heralded...
...back to the '50s, to the culture war of the cold war, with that sissy Adlai Stevenson orating in flickering grays on the Philco. Gonzaga did not make Buchanan a demagogue, but something in the school's inherent anger long ago and its bullying, underdog-wants-to-be-overdog righteousness went into Pat's brain, and came out nasty and dangerous...