Word: underdogs
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Whether it’s Rocky Balboa fighting Apollo Creed, Hickory High versus South Bend Central, or even Doug Flutie against Miami, the role of the underdog is always the most fun—as long...
After four Ivy losses, the Harvard women’s basketball team has fallen out of the favorite role and back into that of the underdog...
...experience, in my entire career, any team I’ve ever been on has performed better as an underdog than as a favorite. When you’re an underdog, you have a mental edge. Who doesn’t want to beat someone who is supposed to beat them...
...Best Short Film (Animated) at next week's Academy Awards ceremony. Up against toon titans Pixar, Disney and Blue Sky, Elliot and his tragicomic creation, who endures Tourette's syndrome and testicular cancer before seizing the day as an avid animal liberationist and nudist, is perhaps the ultimate underdog. (Seven years ago, an Oscar went to a similarly off-kilter outsider - Shine's Geoffrey Rush, whose presence as Harvie Krumpet's narrator lends the film an added poignancy.) "I deal with characters who are different," says Elliot, 32. "I'm more interested in anti-heroes - characters with afflictions...
...concocted narrative could be seen unfolding on the covers of publications like Time and Newsweek, each of which put Dean on the cover twice (by an odd “coincidence,” on the same week each time). In August, they hailed the coming of an antiwar underdog, and Newsweek set up the central conflict that would dominate mainstream campaign coverage until mid-February with their cover title: “Howard Dean: Destiny or Disaster?” In December, the author of that August story, Jonathan H. Alter ’79, who is also...