Word: spunk
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...despairing lapses provide a rare touch of credibility. Nothing in Victor Victoria appears too taxing for Andrew's cohorts either. Unfortunately, Garner's lead appears less warm and less interesting that Preston's Today. Victoria, Toddy's equal, ends up attached to a man her inferior in spirit and spunk because of Hollywood's romantic conventions...
...executive who expected the extravaganza to be "altogether new and gripping" nevertheless thought that it would attract fewer than 4% of his country's viewers. Ratings aside, Let Poland Be Poland proved that whatever the U.S. may lack in diplomatic delicacy, it makes up in sheer spunk...
...merit but by effective persuasion and show. We never do know who they are. They hint at the underside of the self-made man and self-reliance, the freedom to become whatever others will believe. As they prey on others, they illustrate not what energy and diligence but what spunk and audacity wiE do in a protean society. The jack of all trades becomes the shape-shifting diddler, a reminder of how many occupations can be made to turn on the evasion of work. The cultural promise that one can make a self by shrewdness and diligence has, then...
Annoyed at the Big Green's presumptuous start, the Crimson played exclusively for the steal on defense and repeatedly came up emptyhanded. But once Crimson coach Frank McLaughlin called for the zone, Dartmouth lost some of its spunk and Harvard began to pull away...
...author's "submerged population" swims through an eternity of Irish religion, poverty and social riches. Attempts to show a bit of spunk often lead to trouble and comedy. The tumultuous courtship in The Masculine Principle is as psychologically complex as a Henry James relationship, though more lively. Another character, who forgets that his wife is having a baby and buys fish instead of fetching a doctor, is a man to remember...