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...kills penalties as well as anyone," says Harvard Coach Bill Cleary. "He puts the puck in the net He comes back and play defense. But it's those little intangibles, that little bit of spunk, that made Greg Olson special...

Author: By Michael Bass, | Title: Greg Olson: Retired at 21? | 1/7/1983 | See Source »

...Whit's grandpa) are more in the nature of inconveniences than high drama. There are encounters with a cranky bull and a mean-minded con man who owes Red money, an interlude in a cathouse, and, most persistent, a girl named Marlene (Alexa Kenin), who has all the spunk she needs to become the singing star she dreams of being. Too bad she can't carry a tune...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Plain Song | 12/20/1982 | See Source »

...match-up that has all the makings of a barroom brawl. On the right of the room, Charlie Daniels, roof-raising country rocker, the good ole fiddler who a couple of seasons ago sang about the devil going down to Georgia and about solid American spunk: "This lady may have stumbled, but she ain't never fell/ And if the Russians don't believe it, they can all go straight to hell...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Fire from the Mountain | 5/10/1982 | See Source »

...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...

Author: By Clea Simon, | Title: No Surprises | 4/13/1982 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Better to Let Poland Be? | 2/8/1982 | See Source »

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