Word: gumption
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...nominate the American Voter for showing gumption and backbone, rejecting the Bush Administration's portrayal of the Iraq war as a success, punishing Republicans for their adherence to an ideologically inflexible leadership and setting the country on a saner course...
Reality TV may be so hospitable to immigrants because it's a fun house mirror of the immigrant experience. You leave your comfort zone and prove your worth with little more than gumption and (maybe) talent. Wherever you come from, you embrace a new, anything-goes culture that values chutzpah over tradition and propriety. Emigré Burnett's shows, like The Apprentice, are full of Horatio Algerisms about industry and opportunity--not unlike Ugly Betty...
...Shut Up & Sing will play in the heartland - or, for that matter, whether an old leftie like me would have been as charmed by the film if I didn?t share the group?s political sentiments. I?d like to think I?d respect their gumption and be charmed by their perseverance. The movie ends in June 2006, when the Chicks are back at the Shepherd?s Bush Empire, the scene of the crime, with everyone wondering what incendiary remark Natalie will make this time. Let?s just say she replayed one of her greatest hits...
...green room in which she can mingle with legends without regard for their individuality; in the end, all the greats just get filed under "fun music." Aguilera doesn't know much about history, but she has a voice with the blasting power of a fire hose and the gumption to treat every song like a five-alarm blaze. She absolutely devours Makes Me Wanna Pray and Ain't No Other Man, a great big goofy love song that moves with such pace and brass that you can imagine taking two quick steps, thrusting out your chin and taking flight over...
...make too much of Papale's achievement. It indicates that he married the pretty girl and has gone on to a pleasant and useful life. It also inferentially suggests that all of us have a certain amount of untapped potential within us which, mobilized by true grit and unshakable gumption, can carry us at least a bit further than we might imagine...