First at the barricades - then and, in declining numbers, now - was the plucky band of politically topical newspaper editorial cartoonists.

He made a movie about a plucky band of freedom fighters who battle an evil empire - a movie loaded with special effects like no one had seen before.

This plucky little band, directed by Jonathan Sheffer, offers the second of two programs of transcriptions, "In Mahler's Shadow."

The first hundred pages describe the attempts of this plucky little band to survive inside an alien artifact whose self-regenerating systems offer both life-saving resources and deadly dangers.

It was only toward the end of the second half that the din subsided enough to allow a plucky band of 200 Argentine fans to make their soccer anthems heard.

Never in the history of beadling has such a singular public service been performed as by that plucky band of Batmen.