Word: actioneers
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...their national film style for the wild vigor of American B movies. As briskly as the Mesrine story hurtles through its heists, holdups and hair-breadth escapes, the camera moves faster, but always purposefully. Richet brings all the characters to plausible, entertaining life, but Cassel easily dominates the action. Often, as in Eastern Promises, he plays the strutting punk with more bravado than brains. Here he's the unchallenged star, the total movie criminal: smart, daring, ruthless, indomitable. At least till Part...
...initials in the title may lead some to think the movie is about Jesus getting the clap. But action fans will recognize the acronym of a once-renowned action star - the former European middleweight karate champ known as the Muscles from Brussels in such middling fare as Universal Soldier and No Retreat, No Surrender. Van Damme's career trajectory over the last decade has been direct-to-video; so he must have figured that, when he was offered the chance to play himself, more or less, as a hapless has-been who gets enmeshed in a bank robbery...
...Senior Erin Wylie and freshman Melanie Baskind each notched a first-half goal and the defense held off a strong Wildcat push in the final minutes.It was the first goal of the season for Wylie and the first in the collegiate ranks for Baskind, who in early action looks to be the Katherine Sheeleigh of a year ago: a lightning-quick rookie with little reservation about what to do with a good look on net. In the 32nd minute, Baskind took a pass from fellow freshman Lindsey Kowal at midfield, weaved past a host of Davidson defenders, and fired...
...pummeled by charges that he was not a good Catholic and by warnings that he could be denied communion because of his support for abortion rights. Already this year they had seen pro-choice Catholic Kathleen Sebelius knocked out of vice presidential contention after her archbishop imposed a "pastoral action" on her, demanding she no longer receive the Eucharist...
...said he was taking the action in solidarity with Bolivia's President Evo Morales, who had expelled his own country's U.S. ambassador a day earlier. But he also accused the U.S. of being part of a plot to assassinate him, a scheme allegedly involving retired Venezuelan generals and opposition politicians...