Ms Williams can lacerate setting and character alike in a few slashes: "It was one of those rugged American places, a remote, sad-ass, but plucky downwind town whose citizens were flawed and brave".
Habicht's Sheffield is stuffed with Pulp fans, each one an endearing kook, imbued with the spirit of a plucky industrial town, whose industry switched from heavy metals to acerbic pop.
Six years, two more writers and 27 rewrites later, the movie finally came out – as Up Close and Personal, a soapy romance in which Michelle Pfeiffer's plucky small-town reporter rises to the top after being mentored by Robert Redford.
He would be the plucky small-town loser who had flown the flag for weekend sailors everywhere taking on the world's most gruelling endurance test and making it home to his loved ones..
Ms. Murphy, who plays a plucky striver in "Wonderful Town," was an early favorite but has been slammed by The New York Post for missing performances.
A couple of sexy campaigns are not a lot for sports fans to work with, but, like plucky residents of a small town in wartime, Bostonians know how to ration their Brady news.
Huntsman is the plucky outsider, plugging away at one state, visiting town after town after town, winning votes literally one handshake at a time.
If Frank Capra's movies evoke a simpler America of small towns, good hearts, plucky immigrants and hard workers where people stick together and prevail against bigger, malignant forces, Junior Silverio, who came to Long Island from the Philippines in 1990, could have been in one.
