Word: plucking
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Ellis Island, the most ambitious network mini-series of the season thus far, starts out with a reasonable plan: to pluck four individuals from the huddled masses who came to these shores and tell their stories. Unfortunately, the seven-hour drama (based on a novel by Fred Mustard Stewart, who also had a hand in the teleplay) seems less interested in chronicling the immigrant experience than in salvaging the wretched refuse of scores of bad Hollywood movies...
...York, a corrupt orphanage in Ohio, and a nuclear-wasted parallel-Nevada in the Territories are maggoty and colorful, but also wearisomely repetitive. The horrors there on the page are visually ingenious, but they never echo in the mind. Jack Sawyer has two unvarying reactions, fearfulness and pluck. The co-written sentences are so gaudy and muscular they seem phony, like the deltoids of a bodybuilder ("The alligator-thing ran with slow, clumsy, thudding determination. Its eyes sparkled with murderous fury and intelligence. The vestiges of breasts bounced on its scaly chest...
With this kind of pluck and talent, the Tigers deserve to be favored over brand of enchantment...
...divers began carving a 10 ft. by 17 ft. hole in the hull. A giant floating crane operated by Smit Tak International, a Rotterdam company that often retrieves sunken ships from places like the war-torn Persian Gulf, will be towed out to sea on a platform to pluck out the barrels gingerly, an operation that will probably take about a month. Declares Smit Tak International's managing director, Klaas Reinigert: "Compared with all the other jobs we've done, this one's easy." Despite the intense publicity that the sinking of the Mont Louis has received...
When Telling made it to the post of store manager eight years later, he soon got a chance to prove his pluck. A month after he took over, the Danville store burned down. With no help or advice from Chicago, he salvaged what he could from the ruins and moved the business into an empty garage. By the time Sears got around to rebuilding its Danville outlet eight months later, Telling's garage operation had surpassed the old store in both sales and profits...