Word: gritted
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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EQUAL JUSTICE (ABC, Wednesdays, 10 p.m. EST). A band of young lawyers struggle to retain their ideals, and win a few cases, in a big-city D.A.'s office. ABC's new courtroom series matches up well against NBC's L.A. Law: more grit and less sanctimony...
...subject to premature burnout, either physical or mental. The prime examples cited are Austin, who twice won the U.S. Open before departing at 21, and Andrea Jaeger, who made the finals of the French Open and Wimbledon before packing it in at 19. Yet the counterexamples of enduring grit can be equally persuasive: Evert, who began playing at the top level at 16, kept going until her September retirement at the age of 34; her equally precocious rival, Martina Navratilova, 33, is still playing about as well as ever...
...also sees them as a Third World nation of wanderers, displaced and dispossessed in the midst of European bounty. They can survive only on their dreams and their cunning; the film's buoyant visual style is true to both. It is the style of magic realism, the blending of grit and sorcery that soars through the novels of Gabriel Garcia Marquez. Kusturica knows that magic realism finds its perfect home in the movies, and in this story. On the big screen everything must be real because we see it. And in the time of the Gypsies, it is always once...