Word: spunk
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Williams is the "old lady" of the Harvard women's basketball team, but she's far from going senile or losing the "spunk of youth." At 21, Sue is the only senior on the Harvard team and the only player on either the Harvard, Princeton or Yale women's basketball teams that will graduate this spring...
Herold said, "We had spunk today. We're not going to lose any more." Harvard (1-2 Ivy, 2-4 overall) goes after win number three on Wednesday against Boston University...
...fond too shallow. While no one would demand a trenchant political or psychological comment from romantic comedy, we do expect two distinct and compelling personalities whose collision will charm or amuse us. Maybe I'm prejudiced by American films (especially the screwball variety), but I want more quirkiness and spunk from the leads. Although Barrault and Lanoux are frequently endearing and fun to look at as a collection of handsome faces and gestures, there is no electricity in their dialogue. The decent, wholesome characters they play here will never insinuate themselves into your fantasies. Stripped of their comical situation...
...destined to be filmed, is just a slick version of 1930s tears-and-tinsel show biz sagas around which production numbers were draped like rented furs. The only enterprising recent musicals have been the work of Bob Fosse; the movie Cabaret and, on Broadway, Chicago abound in the same spunk and brash vi tality eulogized in That's Entertainment. Fosse is a brilliantly low-down spirit, an innovator, but he too has forsaken movie musicals for more serious undertakings, like Lenny...
Grumbling all the way, gargling his booze, Matthau is better than he has been in years, and all the kids are wonderful, full of spirit and spunk. (Inquires one fearless sad sack of a combative rival: "How'd you like me to stick that bat where the sun never shines?") The movie has some very traditional concerns-about the value of playing as opposed to winning, about trying to achieve a certain minimal dignity-but deals with them lightly and with charm...