Word: grit
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...would claim the fad was sparked by last year's rash of farm films: Jessica Lange's Country, Sissy Spacek's The River and Sally Field's Places in the Heart, to name the most nauseating. But I disagree. America doesn't need PR--wary actresses to put the grit in gritgeist and make it a salable item. Instead, last week's FarmAID effort did just that...
...American troops in liberating Japanese-occupied Korea. Looking at a map, he saw no natural geographical boundaries, so he simply chose the 38th parallel. Richard Nixon remembers how Dwight Eisenhower never publicly criticized John Kennedy for the disastrous 1961 Bay of Pigs invasion, but privately "he used to grit his teeth (and say), 'You know, Dick, I would never have approved a plan without air cover...
...Family Honor, also on ABC, is a more ambitious undertaking. Kenneth McMillan and Eli Wallach co-star as former boyhood pals who are now the patriarchs of families lined up on different sides of the law. The location filming in New York City lends the true grit of authenticity, but the show is out of balance. Too much time is spent on McMillan's police family (among them a granddaughter who has just joined the force), while Wallach and his criminal clan are tossed off in cut-rate TV cliches...
...longer have to grit our teeth anymore when some wise guy asks us what exit we live off. Just think of Bruce and his odes to Jersey highways. Look them straight in the eye and say, "Exit 38 off Route 287. It's really a great exit. Bruce even has a reference to it in one of his songs...
This is a critical moment, and it leaves me with two alternatives. The first of these, the autistic imitation, seldom works, so I grit my teeth and opt for the second. "Ben Smith...