Word: spunk
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...knows how to take initiative. I had him over to my house once for dinner--I went to the kitchen to open some beer and by the time I got back he had subletted half the place to foreign agents. You have to admire that kind of spunk...
...husband and daughter. After Williams discovers that her beautiful sister, Star, has engaged in some drunken flirtation with Voight, she flies into a righteous rage that is a wonder to watch. Somehow, beneath all the creampuffiness of her performance, Williams convinces us that Rose's mother has the spunk her daughter doesn...
Midler insults her kidnappers and bounces up and down in time with TV exercise programs with real spunk, although even that deteriorates by the end of the movie, when she kicks her husband into the water in a bad imitation of Abbott and Costello...
...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...