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...regular cinephile's prime pleasures: following favorite movie people from one project to another. King Hu was an actor before he became the most artful of action auteurs; here you can see him as Lin Dai's comic-heroic brother in The Kingdom and the Beauty before watching his breakthrough martial arts film Come Drink With Me. Cheng Pei-pei is majestically severe at 20 as the heroine of Come Drink With Me, then a pert, curvy chanteuse the following year in Hong Kong Nocturne. Li Hanxiang's directorial style is sedately classical in The Kingdom and the Beauty, rowdy...
...required a lot of care and feeding. Her first, Zack McCoy, is plainly modeled on Jackson Pollock. The wounded god of Abstract Expressionism, he moves from early struggles in New York City to vexed triumphs on the sunlit east end of Long Island. There McCoy/Pollock has his breakthrough to the drip paintings that bring him fame, which arrives at his door with its jaws open...
Pettit led the Crimson scoring barrage, tallying two goals and two assists. It was a breakthrough performance for Pettit, who led the team in goals last season but had yet to score this year...
...while the alleged bombmaker's arrest was a huge breakthrough in the Bali case, investigators say he was probably a fairly small cog in a much larger machine. "If it was only Amrozi, that would be great," says Brigadier General Edward Aritonang, national police spokesman for the investigation team. "If we don't get the masterminds behind him, more bombs will...
Josh Stephenson, a writer for the Princeton Alumni Weekly, wrote last fall that, “Harvard freshmen Kaego Ogbechie and Pernilla Schweitzer may represent a breakthrough for the league...