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In 1980, facing similar difficulties, Ted Kennedy switched from Aaron Copland's "Fanfare for the Common Man" (too high-toned) to "Gonna Fly Now," the theme from Rocky (Ted as the plucky little underdog).
"Were she still alive, Diana, the People's Princess, would also fear the colossal storm, but would admirably conceal her terror with a plucky smile and fistful of mood-altering drugs obtained from the rich lay-abouts she thinks of as friends," the Mirror did not add.
Sentimentalists cheered the triumph of Marlins' manager Jim Leyland, who had been in baseball 33 years without a championship ring, but lamented the defeat of the plucky Indians, who haven't won the Series in 49 years.
Only the Journal could find in the above events an uplifting story about a plucky kid's "first lesson in the power of connections."
Show and Men in Black , at the other Godzilla and the dire Six Days, Seven Nights , which squanders a plucky, Carole Lombardish turn by the scrumptious Anne Heche.