Word: gritting
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Veronica Guerin emerges under unusual auspices. Its producer is ubiquitous uber-mogul Jerry Bruckheimer, its director Joel Schumacher, a Hollywood stalwart whose work ranges from grit (Tigerland) to glitz (Batman & Robin). Screenwriters Carol Doyle and Mary Agnes Donaghue are also Americans. Yet the film resists the tugs of Hollywood melodrama. It builds a pyramid of culpability--the street thugs who push the drugs; the middlemen who cover their malefactions with bluff charm ("We don't sell drugs," protests one, played by Ciaran Hinds, "we're just ordinary decent criminals"); and the top dog (Gerald McSorley, stern and scary as Gilligan...
...Washington, you have a lot of people with sheer grit and tenacity. The question is, at the end of the day, can you get the job done?” he says. “No matter what your knowledge of rare birds or Latin phraseology, you still have to be able to connect with people...
...right, kids. This thrift mecca is not for the faint of heart, but if you grit your teeth, breathe through your mouth and hound around like an airport security pooch, you will come back to Cambridge with cool finds that bring new meaning to the word cheap. Awesome vintage t-shirts are organized by color and go for $1.99. This is the place for DeWolfies to outfit their sweet kitchenettes—glasses and cups are 50 cents, and plates...
...haunted voice. Rarely before Cash had a singer taken vocal pain--not the adolescent shriek of most rock singers but the abiding ache of a veteran victim--and made it so audible, so immediate, so dark and deep. Rarely, before or since, has a voice also shown the grit to express, endure and outlive that misery. His songs played like confessions on a deathbed or death row, but he delivered them with the plangent stoicism of a world-class poker player dealt a bum hand...
Chris's Billiards in Chicago, where the nation's top pool players rack 'em up before crowds in bleachers, is an old-fashioned pool hall, famous for its grit, its smoky aroma, its hints of intrigue and unsavory wheeling and dealing. For years the club, where Martin Scorsese filmed scenes of his 1986 Tom Cruise--Paul Newman hit, The Color of Money, was the kind of place parents warned their children to stay away from. Yet on a recent Tuesday afternoon Diana Dobrzynski, 5, was there shooting a few games with her brother Joshua, 12, and her grandmother, retired police...