Word: grit
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...neat piece of backbeat sleight of hand. It starts out like a celebration of male swagger ("He said goodbye and just walked right out the door"), then turns into a deft bit of deflation ("He looked so good he must have practiced it before"). Songs like this have the grit to make the long run. -By Jay Cocks
...invasion of their privacy. (Justice William Douglas' dissent reasserted the principle that "the right to be let alone is indeed the beginning of all freedom.") Composer Jacob Druckman is one man who retains a sensitivity to music even when Muzak tells him not to listen. "I grit my teeth whenever I go into an elevator or a restaurant," says...
...cement-jawed superhero does battle against an evil imperial foe and uses wit, grit and brute force to win the day and make people feel good about their country. This fantasy of an all-righteous America fills movie theaters even as it fuels presidential elections. Who is Indiana Jones if not the movie-serial avatar of White House Reagan, leaping up from near fatal assaults with a wave and a joke? Who is Superman if not the Krypton Gipper, fighting for truth, justice and voluntary school prayer? At the end of a campaign year that played like one long half...
...Wednesday-night balloting approached, only one substantive question remained: What kind of message would Hart deliver in his prime-time convention swan song? As it turned out, Hart paid obeisance to Mondale without explicitly abandoning his forlorn quest for the nomination. He praised his opponent's "unsurpassed grit, perseverance and determination." He told the loudly applauding delegates that whatever their nomination choice, he would "devote every waking hour and every ounce of energy to the defeat of Ronald Reagan." And he added a nice line: "This is one Hart you will not leave in San Francisco...
...gentle disposition that led her to give away games, and a sweet tooth for capitalism's material delights. Hard to reconcile this figure too with the bewildered defector of 1975, or the girl who cried in 1981 over her inability to win the U.S. Open. With astonishing grit she has overcome all that, while retaining, with people she trusts, the rather innocent and witty honesty that is among the sources of her troubles. "Professionally speaking," she says, "I'd like to be the greatest tennis player of all time...