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...between page and eyes-a makeup woman minutely improving Mabel's face-she reads subtle paragraphs about Americans abroad. But it is now harder for her to find the intensity that the stage show always seemed to generate, and Director Leach has noticed that lately she seems to grit her teeth when thinking of England. Love scenes with Rex Smith are still to be shot, and she must be shyly radiant. Leach has told her to take some time off, fly back to her home in Los Angeles and soak up those shy, radiant freeway vitamins...
...play Russian Roulette in the Heart of Darkness, and win, because he is disciplined. He always understood life in terms of will and courage and manliness, and now he saves himself and his friends. He forces his superior ethic on his companions, inspiring them to develop the grit and sacrifice necessary to survive. The way director Michael Cimino sets things up, it's understood that they will win DeNiro always is a winner, and here with his boy's-book sensibility and see-to-shining-sea masculinity among the racially-stereotyped Vietcong it's just another case of manifest destiny...
...about to die. The fate of the hunger strikers dominates the prison. Guided by orders from outside the Maze, McFarlane and his lieutenants still have a great deal of control over the prisoners and spend hours picking volunteers to replace the strikers who die. The leaders choose grit rather than physical strength, often quoting Bobby Sands, a small man, who said of his own hunger experience: "The body fights back, sure enough, but at the end of the day, everything returns to the mind. If you don't have a strong mind to resist, you won't last...
...prig who talks of keeping himself "pure," for some "rare and radiant maiden" and postures for the camera as "the plainsman" in custom-tailored buckskins with dagger and sheath from Tiffany. The author appears to prefer Black Sheep Elliott, who, lacking what he called his brother's "foolish grit," collapsed under the responsibility of being a Roosevelt, although surviving long enough to father Eleanor, the wife-to-be of Franklin Delano Roosevelt, before dying an alcoholic...
...crop in. Before all those bad crops in the early seventies, too. He doesn't say anything. There was a time when Elvis seemed to be saying, as Harry Crews said, that you didn't have to take it in Dipshit, Tennessee, just because you lived in some dumb grit town. For a second you can feel the elation that was Elvis; the man who gave a whole region a little bit of pride. And then it's gone and the whole thing's just too damn sad. All of it--this couple traveling six hours to see a goddamn...