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PROFILE At 30, Princess Di is a model of grace and grit...
...having similar problems. The dean of St. Paul's Cathedral in London announced that visitors will have to pay a $3.25 entrance fee, after the church had to spend $150,000 to repair its rare black- and-gold marble floor. The surface had been damaged by salt and grit tracked in by tourists wearing sneakers. And forget about stopping at Westminster Abbey, even on a Sunday morning, for a few quiet moments of prayer. "Now it's like Harrods three days before Christmas," says cultural historian John Julius Norwich. "Salisbury Cathedral is just as bad. The whole atmosphere is gone...
WITHOUT WARNING: THE JAMES BRADY STORY (HBO, June 20, 24). Beau Bridges brings grit and not too much sentimentality to the role of President Reagan's former press secretary, who was felled by a bullet meant for the President, and is now the symbolic leader of the nation's gun-control movement. The film's camp highlight, though, is Bryan Clark's hyperkinetic impersonation of Reagan...
...country more than war. Indeed, the very definition of a people often revolves around a reference to war. We speak of the antebellum South, prewar Germany, post-Vietnam America. If the war in the gulf ends the way it began -- with a dazzling display of American technological superiority, individual grit and, most unexpectedly for Saddam, national resolve -- we will no longer speak of post-Vietnam America. A new, post-gulf America will emerge, its self-image, sense of history, even its political discourse transformed...
Kickin' A's The Cincinnati Reds owned first place in their National League division from opening day, but nearly everyone expected they'd lose the World Series to Oakland's high-priced powerhouse club. Then the Reds displayed their blue-collar grit by beating the "better" team in four straight games, pulling off baseball's biggest upset since the Miracle Mets...