Word: grit
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Darci's grit-required of dedicated ballet dancers-showed up early. Her father is a successful Riverside, Calif., doctor, her mother a former French teacher. Her four big brothers were all wrestling champions. Just to keep pace, recalls a friend, "she had to be one tough little girl." The family supported her ambitions, driving her regularly to a studio two hours away in Beverly Hills. Three years ago, about the time that the decision to go to New York had to be made, her mother took her to a high school football game and told her, "Darci...
Sometimes, however, it seems that what Good Morning has done away with is not sandpaper but grit, and guests know that they will rarely be asked an embarrassing question. Talking to Ingrid Bergman about her new book, for instance, Hartman ever so delicately moved in to pop the big one: Is she cured of cancer? "Readers want to know how you are now," he said. "Thank you," she replied. "I feel very well indeed...
...Washington, you'll know I'm there," promised Paula Hawkins on the stump. "You need a fighter in the U.S. Senate. They've had too many lovers up there." Her contest was far from a love feast as she bested her Democratic opponent, William Gunter, with grit and grace and the right combination of issues...
...release of the hostages, both candidates' camps agree, would give the President's campaign a powerful boost. The Republicans would have to join in the national rejoicing. Says one Reagan adviser: "We would grit our teeth and say how delighted...
...overcome any obstacle from social boundaries to the ultimate trump card, time itself. The film chronicles the supposedly magnificant obsession of one Richard Collier, a milk-fed Midwestern playwright marked for success by the gods for his overpowering goodness. Collier seems to come roaring out of the pages of Grit, but no matter, he is successful and stylish with a fancy glass office in Chicago, a foreign sports car and expensive clothes. And yet, he is not satisfied. He has broken up with his girlfriend, he needs to get away, he needs to sort thing...