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...Half Men. What makes the play tolerable are the four good, and very different, actors - Marcia Gay Harden, Hope Davis, Jeff Daniels and James (Tony Soprano) Gandolfini - who at least have some juicy, if stereotypical, characters to sink their teeth into. Unfortunately, the play only made me grit mine...
...some of the fault, I think, lies in the original script, which might be hefty enough for a sung-through opera but here seems too thin to live up to its ambitions. I don't expect a stage musical about street gangs to have the grit or nuance of the better Hollywood films of the same era, like Blackboard Jungle or Rebel Without a Cause (though a cast of gang members who didn't look like they stepped out of a Chorus Line audition might help). But I do want a love story with at least a hint of conviction...
...earthy llanero, or Venezuelan plainsman, can be a maddening and bullying ideologue. (As far as the rest of the world is concerned, so was Bush.) And so are all the other anti-U.S. strongmen out there, from North Korea to Iran, with whom Obama believes he should grit his teeth and engage in the interest of U.S. security. To avoid doing in Latin America what he deems sensible in the Middle East and Asia would repeat Washington's careless habit of treating the continent in ways that helped give rise to the Castros and Chávezes...
...used that momentum to barely sneak out of Hamilton victorious, beating Colgate (17-11-3, 11-6-3), 2-1. “It was a good hockey game,” Crimson coach Katey Stone said. “Our kids played with a lot of heart and grit...We didn’t have as much energy as we normally do but we fought through it.” With the game tied at one and only three minutes left in the third period, senior forward Sarah Wilson swooped in to save the day for Harvard. After Raiders...
Congo is the land Rwanda left behind. At the border, the road turns from asphalt to mud and grit. Rwandan officials are famous for their incorruptibility, but Congolese immigration shook me down. Beyond lies the city of Goma, a sprawl of tin- and grass-roofed huts and refugee camps...