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And I still have a copy of the restraining order he obtained when I attempted, in an excess of neighborly zeal, to climb the fire escape in the loft next to his in that gritty industrial area he called home.
Older locals — trawler men or dockworkers — might lament the loss of Leith’s gritty, “salt-of-the-earth” reputation, but the town has an air of excitement about it.
Much of Among Giants affords an agreeable blend of the gritty and the synthetic, and the two main actors are a treat.
' " (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."
What's so hysterical about this piece of gritty city reporting, the kind of thing that makes true-blue newspaper types bluster with civic pride, is that on the very same day, the Wall Street Journal carries a puff piece about the development of the self-same waterfront: "In San Francisco, Great Views and a Ferry."