Word: underdogism
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...obvious issue to allow Bradley to make a splash. The number of uninsured Americans is the one social problem that has grown worse during the Clinton Administration. For a decade, the issue has offered both opportunity and peril to Democratic candidates. In 1991, it elected the Democratic underdog Harris Wofford to one of Pennsylvania's U.S. Senate seats. One year later, Bill Clinton ran with it to the presidency. But the failure of the complicated plan that he and Hillary proposed contributed heavily to the Democrats' loss of Congress in 1994. This year's Democratic presidential candidates have learned...
After failing to live up to its status as favorites, Harvard will have to go back to the mentality with which it is most familiar: the underdog...
...that Al Gore is the "underdog," mired in the familiarity and fatigue of the Clinton presidency, the veep wants to engage Bill Bradley in hand-to-hand combat. The Gore camp got on the phone to the newspapers Thursday, telling the Washington Post that Bradley?s days as an "outsider" are numbered, promising to dredge up every compromise and change of heart in the former senator?s 18-year record. (They?re likely to start with Bradley?s recent Iowa flip-flop on ethanol subsidies, which he once called "highway robbery.") Then there?s the debates ?- or at least...
...could be his best chance to retake the momentum. Bradley, meanwhile, has campaigned as the lanky, unconventional, enigmatic outsider, and he?s in no hurry to lift the veil of mystery that has just started to work in his favor. Gore says he?s the underdog, and Dollar Bill the target? That?s fine with Bradley, who now can start acting like another favorite, George W. Bush ?- and decline to debate his puny rivals until January...
...Hollywood's best kept secrets. Almost every movie she's in (save that monkey mess Buddy) is a bonafide hit. But Russo tends to hide her beauty (even though, ironically enough, she once was a supermodel) by taking goofy roles--she's usually a clumsy, awkward underdog. In Thomas Crown, she leads with her sexuality, and the chemistry she ignites with Brosnan is beyond electric. And the plot of the caper isn't so shabby either; even though we expect stud and vamp to unite in the end, there's enough twists and turns to cloud the possibility. I have...