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...leaving the U.N., but Jeane Kirkpatrick, 58, is not the sort to cool off on the sidelines. At a Washington party celebrating her imminent return to academe as a government professor at Georgetown University, Administration luminaries like Caspar Weinberger, William Casey and Edwin Meese toasted her grit in championing U.S. foreign policy and applauded her plans to carry on the battle for hearts and minds with a book, a weekly syndicated newspaper column on international affairs and a busy schedule of speaking engagements. Kirkpatrick merely smiled as talk turned to a possible presidential candidacy in 1988, but there...
...adventures, big-sky westerns and film noir mysteries that starred some of the screen's greatest names, including Gary Cooper (The Lives of a Bengal Lancer, 1935), James Stewart (Call Northside 777, 1948), Tyrone Power (The Black Rose, 1950), James Mason (The Desert Fox, 1951) and John Wayne (True Grit, 1969); in Los Angeles...
MIAMI VICE (NBC). Unlike most of the season's new shows, this hard-nosed police series has actually improved since its pilot. The first network series since Hill Street Blues to establish a unique look and tone: an alluring mix of cinema verite grit and rock-video glitz...
...presidency. Continuously under a scrutiny more intense than was ever before applied to a vice-presidential candidate, she made few gaffes and gave no ground. With her candidacy hanging in the balance, she called a press conference to explain her unquestionably sloppy financial dealings and astonished everyone with her grit and control. In her televised debate with George Bush, she maintained a cool gravity and delighted the audience by calmly objecting to the Vice President's apparent condescension...
...neat piece of backbeat sleight of hand. It starts out like a celebration of male swagger ("He said goodbye and just walked right out the door"), then turns into a deft bit of deflation ("He looked so good he must have practiced it before"). Songs like this have the grit to make the long run. -By Jay Cocks