Word: underdogs
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...Going into the general election, do you think you will be an underdog...
...Definitely. And I think it's much better to go in as an underdog. You know you have to work, do the right things under pressure. It's a much better position than being on top and getting careless...
Stern obviously has immense compassion for the people he represented. But it is only when he begins to detail his compassion that the book drags. He talks about his sympathy for the underdog, even to the point of writing that as a child, "I never liked the Yankees because they won all the time." At times he is unbelievably patronizing toward his clinets, to the effect "that the tall towering mountains make it impossible to see the horizon, easy to lose hope," or quoting John Denver's stupid song, "Country Road...
...World Championship, and one not without pathos. For 43 years the team's benevolent millionaire owner, Thomas Yawkey, 73, had spent lavishly−and unsuccessfully−to bring Boston a World Series winner. The closest he came was last year when his underdog Red Sox lost to Cincinnati in the ninth inning of a seven-game Series. Now Yawkey is seriously...
...meals: The Rendevous, with some fine Vietnamese cuisine downstairs (owned by Saigon's former ambassador to Burma), Bartley's and Buddy's Sirloin Pit for hamburgers, Nornie-B's for reuben and sandwich esoterica, the 1955-like Tommy's Lunch for more conventional sandwiches and pinball, and the Underdog, which restores one's faith in the possibilities of cheap lunches and great American hot dogs with various trimmings. Ferdinand's is surprisingly inexpensive and very high in quality also...