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Two other docs are worth your attention this week: The Learning Channel's gritty Inside the White House Press Corps (Monday, 9 p.m.); and "RFK vs.
One of the nice things about Lemann's story is the way it moves from Conant's lofty writings down to the gritty struggles of politics and campaigns, showing how the original idea--sorting people by scientific tests--was twisted by events.
The FALN stories are not well reported and have not yet given us the nitty gritty.
' " (Chris Kaltenbach, the Baltimore Sun ). Says Kenneth Turan in the Los Angeles Times : "It's a gritty story made in the director's more elegiacal mode, a confusion of style and content that is not in the film's best interests."
For 40 years, McBain has been a lively and gritty chronicler of New York City life and helped inspire TV cop shows such as Homicide , NYPD Blue , and Hill Street Blues .