Word: underdogism
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Then why see the movie? That's the better question. A scant hour and a half long, padded with clips from earlier Rocky pictures, adding nothing to his mythic, let alone human dimensions, it lacks even the primitive suspense and crude capacity to release underdog emotions that permitted its predecessors to conquer one's better judgment. The ritual this time celebrates only cynicism and, perhaps, star egotism. In Rocky IV, the underdog is the noise-mauled audience, and one can only hope that it will come off the canvas and take a hike. Or better still, refuse the rematch...
...team always minded playing the part of the underdog this season...
...think the nice thing was that the pressure was off,” Hendricks said of the team’s underdog status. “Our goal was just to work hard and take every match as it came, and not to think too far ahead...
Like most boxing pictures, Cinderella Man is about an underdog becoming a top dog. But that description doesn't begin to suggest the distinctions of director Ron Howard's very good, epically scaled film...
...seat. She'll meet this week with the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee in Washington to discuss how much money it can contribute to the $2 million war chest she expects she'll need in an effort to unseat Republican John Kline. Though Rowley, 50, would start as a distinct underdog in the heavily Republican district (Kline won a second term last year with 56% of the vote), Steven Schier, political science professor at Carleton College, says Rowley might surprise people. "She'll attract a lot of money because she'll be seen as a credible candidate...