Word: underdog
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Crimson may have cruised to a 5-0 victory in last year's matchup against the very same school, but this time around, Harvard will not be the heavy favorite. In fact, it might just be the underdog...
...left scratching our heads as a number of familiar characters started playing against type. Prince Charles turned out to be a good guy after all, and AOL's Steve Case made nice with CompuServe employees. The world's largest Communist country came out in favor of privatization, while the underdog nation of Scotland voted to give itself a Parliament ? and at the behest of an English Prime Minister, too. There was a refreshing whiff of honesty in the air: Steven Biko's killers admitted their crime, and Pentagon Top Brass said Army sex scandals were a product of poor leadership...
...CAREY Underdog has his day. Teamster's doggedness pays off as UPS cries uncle...
...winner is? We're so conditioned to Hollywood's underdog victories that it came as a shock last week for Commerce to whip Art, hands down and forevermore. The end came at the MacWorld Expo in Boston, with what will surely go down as one of our era's iconic images: Gates' tousle-haired grin looming from a giant video screen over the tiny figure of Apple "adviser" Jobs, who stood on the podium watching his strange bedfellow confirm Microsoft's decision to bail out the seminal Silicon Valley start...
...also expect the movie to be a hit, and to solidify Lawrence's rep as a multimedia comedy star: Richard Pryor, the next generation. Lawrence has Pryor's bantam pugnacity, but he lacks the underdog charm, the skewed genius for mimicry and acerb social humor. He has got the Pryor attitude but not the aptitude. And maybe there can be another difference: Lawrence must keep from setting himself and his career on fire...