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...Oklahoma Senator has been dared by Virginia Jenner, an underdog Democratic primary challenger, to grin and bare it: "If Kojak, Ike and Gorbachev can face the world without a hairpiece, why can't David Boren...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Baby-It's-Cold-Outside Sympathy Card | 6/25/1990 | See Source »

...were not well liked after Munich. You're an underdog now. Is this also about redemption...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mark Spitz: Testing The Limits Of Middle Age | 5/21/1990 | See Source »

...nice to go in as the underdog," said Co-Captain Dave Carey, a local product from Lincoln-Sudbury High School. "I saw Harvard play a lot when I was younger...

Author: By Andy Fine, | Title: Laxmen Look to Limit Luck of Irish in NCAA First Round | 5/16/1990 | See Source »

There are differences worth noting. Raw culture of the '60s was a political response to a system seen by many artists as repressive and, in Vietnam, genocidal. They championed the underdog by kicking the top dog. And for the first time, thanks to Supreme Court decisions liberalizing the definition of obscenity, performers were able to use whatever words they chose. Bruce, the gifted, tortured pioneer of this mode, aptly titled his autobiography How to Talk Dirty and Influence People. In the book's foreword, critic Kenneth Tynan praised Bruce as "an impromptu prose poet who trusted his audience so completely...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: X Rated | 5/7/1990 | See Source »

...Everyone's pretty confident," Co-Captain midfielder Mark Donovan said. "We definitely don't see ourselves as the underdog...

Author: By Gary R. Shenk, | Title: THE GAME II: Laxmen Challenge Elis Today For First Place in Ivies | 4/28/1990 | See Source »

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