Word: spunk
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...easy to exaggerate the point and arrive at the wrong conclusion. Credit first the Filipinos, who won their own victory. Credit Cory Aquino's popular appeal and her surprising firmness and spunk, the steady and subtle support of the Catholic Church, the defection of the two military leaders. Then credit American diplomacy, which wanted Marcos out, but not so precipitously that chaos would follow. Presumably this helps explain Reagan's early waffling. What hastened the President's change of mind was the discovery that Congress and the American people were ahead of him in wanting Marcos out. The public response...
Only MacRose Prizzi (portrayed marvelously by Anjelica Huston, the director's daughter) has real spunk. As the bastard of the family, her father for her loose sexuality exiled MacRose. She and Charlie had been an item for years before an argument sent her to Mexico. When she returns to the family, it is to get Charlie back--her self-proclaimed raison d'etre...
...Harvard softball team swept a doubleheader from Mt. Holycke Saturday, and proved that it has the depth and the spunk to win even without strong pitching...
...demonstrated two years ago in Plenty, playing another man of propriety married to a disturbed idealist. Covington, Tyzack and Haig (imported from the Royal Court Theater in London, where Tom and Viv was first produced last year) perform admirably in better roles, ones with a little shading, irony and spunk. Max Stafford- Clark's direction fills the stage at Manhattan's Public Theater with mausoleum air and anguished pauses: if this production were a poem, it would be mostly white space...
...final reflects that Husky expertise, but it can't reflect the Crimson spunk...