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...through to the President, he resorted to a final message: If his call was not returned immediately, he would state his opposition to Baird's nomination publicly. The tactic worked: Clinton called back and Biden told him the bad news. Baird meanwhile kept going with considerable poise and grit. "We kept telling her that she had to smile," a White House aide recalled. Two hours later, the hearings closed. At 10, Baird reached Cutler's office downtown, where Christopher and White House aide Paster informed her that there was no hope left. Biden called to echo the point. After some...
CINEMA A woman triumphs through grit in Passion Fish...
...nonfiction, in fact, his principal role has been that of a warning bell and an elegist, trying to rescue traditional values and forgotten instincts from the ravages of progress. ("Modern time, mon, modern time," runs the knelling refrain of Far Tortuga.) "The world is losing its grit and taste," he says with feeling. "The flavor of life is going." And he rises to highest eloquence when talking of the way ever brighter urban lights have caused a "loss of the night" -- the fading of the stars he knew as a boy and of the dark waters on Long Island Sound...
...will decide the fate of the universe. Viewers must believe, he says, that this morality play is "their own story." Slavutin's Student Theater at Moscow State University has dramatized the most tumultuous events of the Soviet demise in the language of vaudeville sketches. His success in turning the grit and grime into lyrical parables of universal meaning has attracted a dedicated following. "This is a theater of hope," he says, "not of dead ends...
Ultimately, the fate of Russia's economy depends on the grit of reform leaders like Yeltsin and Gaidar and the animal spirits of entrepreneurs. In the paradox-riddled new Russia, Yeltsin's struggling reforms still look like & the biggest and best risks that the country can take...