Word: spunk
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...saga? A onetime newspaper and wire-service reporter, Ellis, 84, has lived for the past 28 years in a book-crammed (15,000 volumes) walk-up apartment in Manhattan's Chelsea district. Slowed by age and emphysema, he rarely ventures from home but is still full of vim and spunk; he spends an hour or more each day adding to the diaries, typing on an old Hermes manual...
RICHARD GERE'S LANCELOT IS A cheeky existentialist. Julia Ormond's Guinevere is all up-to-date feminist spunk. Sean Connery's King Arthur is a leader for the Clinton era, well-meaning, essentially temporizing, as he impotently watches a great dream dwindle...
Richard Gere's Lancelot is a cheeky existentialist, Sean Connery's King Arthur is a temporizing leader for the Clinton era, and Julia Ormond's Guinevere is all up-to-date feminist spunk. The Camelot of Jerry Zucker's "First Knight," says TIME's Richard Schickel, is more a modern gated community than a myth-enshrouded, 6th century realm. And the great romance that was played out there -- legend's ur-Triangle -- comes across as not much more consequential than suburban adultery: "One can easily imagine Guinevere and Lancelot as Gwen and Lance, furtively smooching on the 18th tee during...
...Fred Astaire had become the most famous pair of dancers that would ever cut their way across a high-gloss floor or up a spiral staircase. In the memorable words of Katharine Hepburn, the pairing gave him sex and her class-yet Rogers' own singular combination of pathos and spunk would make itself evident in non-Astaire efforts like 1937's Stage Door. In the years following the screen couple's parting of the ways in 1939, she scored such triumphs as her Academy Award-winning work in the tearjerker Kitty Foyle (1940). A Christian Scientist, Rogers believed...
Tank Girl herself is incarnated by Lori Petty,whose previous performances in "A League of TheirOwn" and "Point Break" gave little indication ofher leading-lady spunk. Petty is charismatic asall get out, swaggering about like an imminentfirecracker spinning on the sidewalk. Her whisperybaby-girl voice, which threatens to be irritating,instead coats the filth emerging from her mouthwith delicious irony...