Word: gumption
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What can fairly be called the Fagles phenomenon forms an intriguing new chapter in the long saga of efforts to knead Homeric Greek into suitable English. The first translator with access to the Greek texts and the gumption to try his hand at them was George Chapman (circa 1560-1634), whose complete version of the Iliad in English appeared in 1611, the same year that saw the release of the King James Version of the Old and New Testaments...
...migrate; since Amy was their first sight on earth, "imprinted" on the goslings as their mom, the seemingly impossible job of getting them airborne is hers. Good thing Dad likes to fool around with ultralight aircraft, which fly at roughly goose speed. Good thing Amy has the gumption to fly one of those contraptions...
...what I really want to ask Leary is this: Do you hanker to wring your wife's treacherous neck? Finally, after three-quarters of the visiting hour has passed, the prisoner is escorted in. After devoting most of our talk to Spit, I finally get up the gumption to ask my question. "By the way, Tim, I don't mean to pry, but ... what's happening with your new, you know, since you last...
...melodramatists, with an unfortunate tendency to get self-love, self-loathing and self-pity all mixed up. Screenwriter Scott Frank and director Barry Sonnenfeld also understand that the proper response to all that confusion is not heavy-hitting moralism but wry compassion. And a good-humored respect for the gumption and cunning of people whose lives forever hinge on whether or not their phone calls get returned...
...itself an electronic Ebola. Needless to say, Angela must be deleted before she can delete it. "There are some logical jump cuts in 'The Net's' narrative," saysTIME's Richard Schickel. But director Irwin Winkler has a confident sense of pacing and scale and, in Bullock, "an actress whose gumption and vulnerability can penetrate any plastic pocket protector and jump-start the most shriveled hacker's heart beneath...