Word: grit
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...thing that fills fans with an unsettling mixture of hope and dread. The hope arose out of the possibilities inherent in permitting these feisty senior citizens to have at one another on the screen. The dread derived from knowledge that they would be doing a mere sequel (to True Grit) and that producers have a habit of resting on their packages, not bothering to turn them into movies that would interest us on their own merits. Rooster Cogburn is not as bad as it might have been. It is just not as good as it quite easily could have been...
...best place to wait out July 4, 1976, for everyone concerned, will be well out of the country, preferably on the other side of a sizeable body of water--perhaps in the land of our old oppressors. Second best will be right in the middle of it all. Just grit your teeth and keep your eyes and ears open. After all, this kind of thing only happens once every hundred years...
...WIND AND THE LION. A rambunctious, romantic pageant, filled with sentimental splendors, all about a brave Berber bandit (Sean Connery) and a beautiful American woman (Candice Bergen) of true grit. Writer-Director John Milius has captured both the sweep and the spirit of such classic adventure romances as Four Feathers...
...conception and neglectful of the untapped opportunities London presents for cinematic excitement. Since Director Hickox has no apparent gift for adventure sequences, it may be just as well that he did not undertake situations that would tax his limited ingenuity. But it has been a long time since True Grit, and maybe one of our Bicentennial projects ought to be a search for a movie worthy of a national treasure like John Wayne. It is maddening to see him caught up in incompetencies like Brannigan...
...first time in years, there is no miasma of smoke over U.S. Steel's Open Hearth Mill No. 4-a complex of ten 65-year-old furnaces that annually produce 960,000 tons of steel and, as an unwelcome byproduct, 2,700 tons of airborne grit. Because it claims that it cannot curb the fumes right now, the company has shut down the mill. The decision could cost 2,500 employees their jobs in a city with an unemployment rate already approaching...