Word: one-up
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...showing off their women and children, the Democrats sought to one-up the Republicans at every opportunity. In San Diego the Republicans had more than 40 women speakers. By Wednesday evening the Democrats had almost 50. The Democrats' yuppieish keynote speaker, Evan Bayh, trumped yuppieish Republican keynoter Susan Molinari's newborn with his twins. Advantage, Chicago...
Eddie Murphy is dead. Long live Eddie Murphy. In his latest movie, the erst-while superstar delivers a captivating, many-sided performance that ironically succeeds most when Murphy exaggerates and demonizes the very character that launched him to stardom--the brash, vulgar fast-talker able to one-up anyone. But returning constantly to the lower end of the roller coaster -- bathroom humor and insipid romance -- the movie acquires a wearying, frustrating rhythm of unbearable idiocy alternating with high-quality hilarity...
DARDEN WANTED HIS FACE-OFF WITH Cochran. And he got it. "I know Chris is a mano-a-mano guy," says Cochran. "He likes to one-up you. He likes to put it away. He likes to be real tough in trial and really impressive." Cochran says. During a break in testimony about Simpson's purchase of the leather gloves from Bloomingdale's, Shapiro and Cochran decided to try the gloves on for themselves. "They felt small to me," Cochran says, "and we both told [Simpson], 'They're going to ask you to put the gloves...
...straight man to Smoot's comic. But Mump is also clearly the leader: arrogant, self-assured, and at times abusive to his sidekick. Smoot is the underdog the audience roots for--but he is also wily, vindictive, and--with the audience's help--even manages to one-up Mump a time or two. Both characters grapple with moral issues usually far beyond the scope of clown shtick, and both infuse their comedy with an underlying shadow of self-destruction and despair. Clearly, Mump and Smoot are not the kind of clowns to take small children or mentally unstable friends...
Later the Kennedys visited France, and the welcome was tumultuous. It was a proud and happy hero who said, "I am the man who accompanied Jacqueline Kennedy to Paris." Talking in French to De Gaulle, the First Lady said, "My grandparents are French." Replied the great one-up man: "So are mine, madame...