Word: gritting
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...country songs and a female lead, Jenn Colella, with a fetching country voice that breaks in all the right places. The problems are a star, Matt Cavanaugh, who replaces Travolta's misunderstood-teen insouciance with white-bread Broadway blandness, and a book that scrubs out most of the grit and subtlety of the movie. In another Broadway season, "Urban Cowboy" might have had just enough firepower to survive. But with too many other, better musicals ("Hairspray", "Movin' Out", "The Producers") vying for theatergoer dollars, an inoffensive show like "Urban Cowboy" is probably headed for the last roundup...
...especially so because of the Crimson heroics it spoiled. Had the Harvard lead held up, everyone would be talking about the grit of Kolarik, who won the title game in double overtime last season while playing with a broken thumb and was a last-minute addition to the lineup after missing all or part of the last five games with two different injuries...
...than Arnold Schwarzenegger. In the U.S., he's a reliable earner in medium-budget action movies. But as he showed last year, Li may need a Chinese director to bring out his own regal steeliness. In the Zhang Yimou hit Hero, he was more than a solemn killer. Radiating grit and elegance, he fully embodied the film's title. And nobody called him Bruce...
...especially so because of the Crimson heroics it spoiled. Had the Harvard lead held up, everyone would be talking about the grit of Kolarik, who won the title game in double overtime last season while playing with a broken thumb and was a last-minute addition to the lineup on Saturday after missing all or part of the last five games with two different injuries...
...Wendy Shalit and A Return to Modesty), and I look around the dining hall to see others with their jaws agape, gasping for breath and possibly drooling because of a publication produced with shameless gusto by women who love to shock and provoke. There must be a thousand grit-stained copies of the Salient quickening pulses and/or churning stomachs in the Harvard dining halls. We read on out of the same “morbid fascination” with which Cardinale claims to watch “Joe Millionaire”—not because the arguments are compelling...