1.   Before long, some Republican officials were questioning his abilities as a candidate and Bush himself was battling an image as an intellectual lightweight.

2.   Bush often is portrayed in the European press as an intellectual lightweight who will need to surround himself with all the cerebral wattage he can find.

3.   But Bronfman could never outrun his detractors, who jeered him as an intellectual lightweight whose judgment was clouded by the star-studded atmosphere of Hollywood and the record business.

4.   But he suffers from his image as an intellectual lightweight.

5.   He has had to overcome derision from some colleagues and critics who dismissed him early in his career as a dilettante and later as an intellectual lightweight.

6.   His aides pressed him to deliver a series of six policy speeches in an attempt to rebut attempts by Clinton to portray him as an intellectual lightweight.

7.   Like Eisenhower and Reagan, Bush has come to the presidency viewed by many as something of an intellectual lightweight.

8.   The formal debates made him defensive, working overtime to counter the charge that he was a smirking intellectual lightweight.

9.   Thus, Bush is seen as an intellectual lightweight and a fratboy, and Gore is seen as wooden.

10.   Many Colombians view Pastrana as an intellectual lightweight.