Word: grit
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...Sometimes it’s just about grit. It’s not all about being a pretty soccer player. I think we showed that today,” Wheaton said...
...This loose remake of "The Desperate Hours," or possibly "The Virgin Spring" - three snarling strippers take a young couple hostage - got its grit from the actress Meyer calls "the demanding / mind-bludgeoning Tura Satana." A spiked cocktail of Amer-Asian genes, Satana had been stripping since she was 13 (the year she was married, according to one source) and played Suzette Wong in Billy Wilder's "Irma La Douce." At 30, she looked millennia older, not wiser but wizened, relying on reptilian instincts of survival and predation. Her Varla is the most honest, maybe the one honest, portrayal...
...others, Germany was all about grit. Consider the character it must have taken for the side to rebound from its 5-1 defeat at the hands of England last September in Munich, went the argument. And look at how their team?depleted by the absence of several top players, including the injured Mehmet Scholl and Sebastian "Basti Fantasti" Deisler, who missed the tournament?hung together. The giant German 'keeper and captain Oliver Kahn?who made a series of awesome saves and was named as the goalkeeper of the games?oversaw a defense so mean it conceded just one goal before...
...others, Germany was all about grit. Consider the character it must have taken for the side to rebound from its 5-1 defeat at the hands of England last September in Munich, went the argument. And look at how their team - depleted by the absence of several top players, including the injured Mehmet Scholl and Sebastian "Basti Fantasti" Deisler, who missed the tournament - hung together. The giant German 'keeper and captain Oliver Kahn - who made a series of awesome saves and was named as the goalkeeper of the games - oversaw a defense so mean it conceded just one goal before...
Brace yourself, kids. Grit your teeth and clench your fists. Your relatives have traveled across oceans and continents for your graduation ceremony and, at several points during the first week of June, they will embarrass you. Especially your grandparents. They will fuss over you and ask you if you’ve eaten and tell your roommates stories about that time when you were little and got sick from eating paste. They’ll brag about all the wonderful things you’re doing after graduation and tell anyone who will listen that you’re going...